Her three brothers and father enlisted in the Confederate Army at the start of the American Civil War.
[1][3] Her father, Joel Allen Battle, started a company in Nolensville, called the "Zollicoffer Guards.
[1] Battle joined the Confederacy as a spy when the Union Army occupied Nashville in March 1862.
On April 7, 1863, Battle and Booker were arrested for smuggling and holding fake Federal passes.
Therefore, Battle quit her job teaching in 1886 and served as the nonprofit's secretary-general, a position she would hold until her death in 1924.
Physicians and other professionals provided pro bono services to the growing number of children in the program.
[2] Sixteen years later, Battle created a fundraising campaign for the Day Home, during which carolers would perform during the Christmas holiday.