Refugitta.

Constance Cary Harrison

*Constance Cary Harrison (pen name, Refugitta; April 25, 1843 – November 21, 1920), also referred as Mrs. Burton Harrison, was an American writer. She and two of her cousins were known as the "Cary Invincibles"; the three sewed the first examples of the Confederate Battle Flag.

Constance belonged to an old Virginia family related to the Fairfaxes and Jeffersons. Her home was destroyed during the American Civil War and consequently she witnessed much of the horrors of that struggle.

After the seizure of Vaucluse--

--and its demolition (to construct Fort Worth, as a part of the defenses of Washington, D.C.) she lived in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War and moved in the same set as Varina Davis, Mary Boykin Chesnut, and Virginia Clay-Clopton. She was published in Southern magazines under the pen name "Refugitta."*

**Constance who later was won by President Davis’ private secretary. In a magazine article she alluded to her experiences and told how when the wounded were taken to the receiving hospital downtown the soldiers would beg to be taken to the Clopton Hospital, for the fame of the practice of the surgeon in charge, Dr. Henry Augustus Tatum of Richmond, Va., was widespread. His assistant was young Dr. Patterson. The reputation he gained was that he saved the limbs which others would have amputated as a quicker method of healing. This reputation he gained the previous year in his practice at the Warm Springs Hospital.**

(* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Cary_Harrison )

( **  http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~clopton/mint.htm#_ftnref52 )

Dr Tatum, was my Great Grandfather's (John C Tatum) Uncle who died in 1862 from pneumonia.

William Henry Tatum ( John's Older Brother) notes his passing in a letter home Oct 9th 1862-

Here

I often wonder is things had been different.

DT.