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Abstract:
Franklin County's Abby House, known as Aunt Abby, was defined by a fierce loyalty to the Confederacy during the Civil War and a cantankerous resolve to aid her friends and her kin. Her epitaph reads, \"Angel of Mercy to Confederate Soldiers.\"
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Abbey House of Franklinton was one of the many civilian women who voluntarily nursed the sick and wounded during the Civil War. Originally featured in Land We Love (May/June 1867), a monthly magazine edited by former Confederate General D. H. Hill, “Aunt†Abby traveled without charge on the South's railroads and hitchhiked to battlefields to offer her assistance. She was also a regular visitor to the rail yards of Franklinton, greeting the trains that brought wounded soldiers back to North Carolina.