Obituary for Mrs. Mattie Dortch Wood, Davidson, TN

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Obituary of Mrs. Mattie Dortch Wood, Nashville, Davidson Co., TN

As it appeared in the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, November 1913, 21st Year, 11th 
Number.

Mrs. Mattie Wood was born in Nashville July 22, 1842; and after a lingering
illness passed quietly into the great beyond January 20, 1913.  Nashville was
always her home.  She was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  She
often stood and waved a small silk Confederate flag, which was made by her
mother, to the soldiers who passed her home, near the Murfreesboro Pike.  This
flag she always kept as a treasured relic of war time.  During the great
Reunion held in Nashville she carried this flag to the parade line and waved
it with tears streaming down her cheeks.  She waved it again later to the
fast-fading ranks of those who wore the gray.  Her oldest brother, Jesse L.
Dortch, was pilot on a gunboat that shelled New Madrid, Mo.

She was ardently devoted to the Confederacy and true to the cause.  It was her
one desire that these principles be instilled into her children.  She was
always pleased to talk to them about the war, and with pride she often told of
meeting and talking with General Forrest as he was on his way to Murfreesboro.

With her mother and other ladies of the neighborhood she often visited the
hospitals in South Nashville, carrying to the sick and wounded articles needed
for their comfort.

She was devoted to the VETERAN and its purposes.