"B" is for Bacot, Ada White [1832-1911]. Civil War nurse, diarist. Bacot was born and reared in Darlington County. In January 1861 she volunteered to serve as a nurse for the Confederacy, and, overcoming bureaucratic obstacles, was in Virginia by December. Working in the Monticello Hospital --operated by the South Carolina Hospital Aid Association--she supervised the preparation of meals and the laundering of clothing and bed linens. Social convention limited her interactions with wounded soldiers to visiting them, helping them write letters, or reading Scripture to them. She kept a diary that provides insight into the social life of a devoutly religious, single, upper-class southern woman during the Civil War. For Ada White Bacot, nursing was a socially respectable way for a daughter of wealth and privilege to serve God and country.
"B" is for Bacot, Ada White [1832-1911]
