The round marker recognizes Alcott's Civil War service as a nurse. (The marker is quite dark, but if you look carefully, you can make out a five-pointed star.)
Louisa May Alcott, never in great health after her bout of typhoid during her nursing service, had retired to a rest home, when in 1888 she visited her father's deathbed, and then died herself two days later.
Louisa May Alcott is best known for her book, Little Women. Less known is that she was a supporter of abolition, temperance, and women's rights.
