Sallie Chapman Gordon Law (nicknamed Mother of the Confederacy) (1805–1894) was the first recorded Confederate nurse in the American Civil War. She was the president of the (Society of) Southern Mothers’ Association, a group of women from the Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. The Southern Mothers' worked at Overton Hospital, tending to Confederate and Union patients. She also went to La Grange, Georgia, where she worked at Law Hospital, which was named after her.