Though the Confederate government and many others left the city in the hope of escaping the Union Army, Phoebe Pember stayed and continued her duties at the hospital until Federal authorities assumed control of the facility. Lee was compelled to abandon the siege line at Petersburg, south of Richmond, as well as the defenses of the Confederate capital. The end finally came in early April 1865, when Union cavalry overran the Confederate defenses at the Battle of Five Forks and General Robert E. She served as both a nurse and hospital administrator for the rest of the war, caring for countless wounded and dying soldiers and keeping the hospital going despite wartime shortages of everything. In December 1862, Phoebe Pember accepted a position as matron of a division of Richmond’s huge Chimborazo Military Hospital.
Phoebe Pember then briefly moved back in with her family, at that time living in Marietta, Georgia, before she relocated to Richmond, Virginia. Soon after that, he contracted tuberculosis and the couple moved back to the south in the hope it would aid in his recovery, but in July of 1861, Thomas Pember died. She married Thomas Pember of Boston in 1856. Phoebe Yates Pember was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1823.
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