Did you know a woman who once lived in Forsyth was sometimes called “Mother of the Confederacy” because of her executive and nursing skills in caring for wounded Confederate soldiers?

Sallie Chapman Law nursed soldiers first in Memphis in 1861, when she and other women established the Southern Mothers’ Hospital. Later she worked with Confederate hospitals in LaGrange and Columbus, Georgia. She had a remarkable knack of being able to collect hospital supplies and get them to where they were needed. In the early years of her marriage to Dr. John S. Law, the couple lived for almost ten years in Forsyth, where he practiced medicine.