Hannah Ropes, she was over 50 when the war started. She was an experienced nurse and had gained prewar recognition as reformer and abolitionist. Like Dorothea and Mary, she believed every soldier deserved proper sanitation and good food. In 1862 Hannah became the matron of the Union Hotel Hospital in Washington, D.C. Louisa May Alcott also served there and wrote about Hannah’s time working there along with other nurse’s lives.