Laura Ratcliffe was also a friend of Major General J. E. B. Stuart, who gave her several gifts in "appreciation of her patriotism, admiration of her virtues, and pledge of his lasting esteem.".

[3][4] They had met after Ratcliffe had served as a nurse in Jeb Stuart's Camp Quivive in Fairfax in the winter of 1861.

Back in 1869, Laura's mother sold her 133 acres she owned near Burke Lake, and on July 2, 1869, she bought a house called Merrybrook.

She married a man named Milton Hanna,[6] a wealthy Union veteran, who coincidentally was her neighbor and friend.

In 1910, she was seventy-four at the time, ninety-six of Mosby's men held their annual reunion in Herndon where Congressman C. C. Carlin praised Laura by saying that she gave the guerilla leader very valuable information regarding the actions of Union troops.

While on her deathbed, she still had servants on her dairy farm who took care of her, and visitors described her as gracious and, strangely, wore little earrings.