Caroline Jebb

[2] In 1856 she married Lt. Adam J. Slemmer, a Brigadier-General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and they lived on military bases in South Carolina, Florida, and Wyoming Territory.

[2] Her social circle included Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Charles Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ellen Terry, Mark Twain, and William Thackeray.

[2] In Cambridge, she was elected to the Ladies Dining Society that had been founded by Louise Creighton and Kathleen Lyttleton in 1890.

In 1907 she published a biography of her second husband, "Life and letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O. M., LITT.

[5][6][7] Her ashes were subsequently interred in the grave of her late husband in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.

"Mrs. Caroline Slemmer wife of the gallant Lieutenant Slemmer, now in command of Fort Pickens." Lithograph by John L. Magee , from a photograph taken Feb. 18th 1861.