On November 14, 1850, she married John Stainback Wilson, M.D. During the American Civil War, she worked in the hospitals of
Richmond, Virginia, Camp Winder, and Camp Jackson, with her husband, who was a surgeon. At that time, she wrote a book,
Hospital Scenes and Incidents of the War, which was in the hands of the publishers, with the provision that the proceeds should go to the sick and wounded. The manuscript was burned in the fall of
Columbia, South Carolina. A part of the original manuscript was deposited in the
cornerstone of the Confederate Home in
Atlanta. Dr. and Mrs. Wilson were in the
Battle of Jonesborough, where General
William Sherman captured part of the command, and the badly wounded were sent under Dr. and Mrs. Wilson's care to
Macon, Georgia, and those not injured to northern prisons. Her career was associated with the duties of corresponding secretary of the central committee of the Woman's Baptist Missionary Union of Georgia. The central committee was organized by the home and foreign boards of the
Southern Baptist Convention, November 19, 1878, in Atlanta, with Wilson as president. She also served as the Georgia editor of the
Baptist Basket, a missionary journal published in
Louisville, Kentucky. Wilson was for some time president of the Southside
Woman's Christian Temperance Union and of the Woman's Christian Association of Atlanta, both of which she aided in organizing. At the same time, she taught an infant class of 60 to 75 in her church's Sunday school. Although her husband died on August 2, 1892, she continued her work without interruption. ==Personal life==