Mary Martha Reid (September 19, 1812 – June 24, 1894) is Florida's "most famous nurse and Confederate heroine.
[2] She married Robert Reid, who was a federal judge, on November 29, 1836, after meeting him during a visit to St. Augustine, Florida earlier that year.
[1] Her surviving son, Raymond, enlisted in the 2nd Florida Infantry, on May 23, 1861, and Mary Martha Reid's wish to be near him made her a nurse.
Together with Dr. Thomas M. Palmer, Mary Martha Reid opened a 150-bed hospital in Richmond in September 1862 to treat Confederate soldiers from Florida.
The first Florida chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy was named in Mary Reid's honor.