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'''Joanna Painter (Fox) Waddill''' (September 24, 1838 – January 3, 1899) was a nurse assisting wounded and ill [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] soldiers during the [[American Civil War]]. She became celebrated as the "[[Florence Nightingale]] of the Confederacy" for her [[humanitarianism]]. Joanna Fox was born in [[Bristol, Pennsylvania]], to James C. Fox and his wife Catherine Bessonett. Fox was a brickmason who moved his family to the [[Mississippi River]] port city of [[Natchez, Mississippi]], when Joanna was a baby. Fox was only 22 years old when the Civil War erupted in early 1861. She and two other Natchez ladies traveled to the front lines to serve as volunteer nurses in such places as [[Mississippi]], [[Alabama]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], and [[Tennessee]]. When the [[Union Navy]] captured Natchez as they advanced toward [[Vicksburg, Mississippi]], Waddill hid a Confederate flag under her petticoat to prevent its capture.<ref name=FindAGrave>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7362113 Find A Grave] Retrieved 2008-10-06.</ref> Near the end of the war, Fox became the matron of the Confederate hospital in [[Meridian, Mississippi]]. There, she met [[Louisiana]] druggist George D. Waddill while they both tended sick and dying Confederate soldiers. The couple were married in [[Lauderdale, Mississippi]], (near [[Corinth, Mississippi|Corinth]]) on September 26, 1864.<ref name=Waddill>[http://millennium.fortunecity.com/blyton/772/UDC/founder.htm Waddill biographical webpage.] Retrieved 2008-10-06.</ref> The couple moved to [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]], where they operated a drugstore for many years. She became active in the Confederate Memorial Association and other societies. Joanna Waddill and her husband are buried in Magnolia Cemetery at Baton Rouge. Ironically, the cemetery was in the middle of the [[Battle of Baton Rouge]].<ref name=FindAGrave/> The Joanna Waddill Camp #294 of the [[Daughters of the Confederacy]] is named in her honor. It is active in local Civil War memorialization.<ref>[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/w4578.html Library of Louisiana State University.] Retrieved 2008-10-06.</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Waddill, Joanna Fox}} [[Category:Women in the American Civil War]] [[Category:American Civil War nurses]] [[Category:People of Mississippi in the American Civil War]] [[Category:People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania]] [[Category:People from Natchez, Mississippi]] [[Category:People from Baton Rouge, Louisiana]] [[Category:1838 births]] [[Category:1899 deaths]]
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