The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-20 00:00:00

AX INCIDEXT OF THE AMERICAN WAR.

About a twelvemonth ainoe, when disaster every-
where overtook the Unica ned our gallant seas Wen
falling fist under the us sword of rebellion, a
young lady scarce 19, just from an academy is a sister
State, cooceived the idea that she wes destined by Provi.
dance to lead our armies to victory, and our nation through
=remade' war. It wee at fiat thought by her pareata—a
highly respectable family in Willoughbyelreet—that her
mind was weakened sin yby reading continual enemas of
reverses to our arms, they treated her as a sick child.
This only had the effect of making bee mon demondrative,
and her enthusiastic declaration and apparent 'lucency gave
the family peat anxiety. Dr. B. was coasulted, the minister
was spoken to, friends advised. (may ineetiass held, inter-
views with the yams lady and her ((MEW companions in
the academy were frequent, bat nothing could shake the
fading whia powered her. It was finally resolved upon
to take her to Michigan. An old maiden aunt thoompthied
the fair enthusiast, and for weeks Ann Arbor became their
home. But travel had no effect upon the girl. The stern
ocimensad of her aunt aloes prevented her from making her
way to Washington to solicit an interview with the Peed-
deat, for the purpose of getting command of the limited
States army. Finally, it was found to restrain
her from seeing any but her own finally her private
parlour became her prises. To a Mge-apirited girt this
would be unendurable at any time, bat to a young lady
filled with such an hallacioation it was worse than death.
She resolved to elude her friends, sad ancemeded—leaving
them cliodestioely—and although the. most distinguished
detectives of the east and the west were employed to hod her
wherabouts, it was unavailing. Nose mold ever oonjeoture
her hiding place.
-This was kat April. She was mourned
es lost, the habilments of warning wen clopped by her
grief-stricken parests, and a suicides grave was assumed to
bs here. But it was not so. The infatuated girl, eliding no
sympathy among her friends, resolved to ester the army,
as • drummer boy, dreaming, poor girl, that her
destiny would be worked oat by snob a mode. She joined
the drum corps of • Michigan regiment at Detroit, her
sex known ooly to herself, and sneceeded in gettiog with
her regiment to the army of the Cumberland. How the
poor girl survived the hardthipe of die Kentucky CUD.
paign, where strong men fell is members, most for !Vie
remain • mystery. The regiment to which the was attached
hid • place io the division of the 'alma Van Cleve, and
during the bloody battle of last Sunday the fair girl fell,
pierced in the left side with • Minleball, end when borne to
the surgeon's tent her sex was discovered 8b• was told by
the surgeon that her wound was mortal, and advised to give
her name, that her family might he Wormed of her fate.
This the finally, though ',lades* consented to do, and
the colonel of the regiment, although Buffalos himself from
• paiuful wound, booms interested in her behalf, and pre-
vailed upon her to let him seed • dispatch to her father.
Bee, then is • short incident of the war, which might
read like re:eases. But to the unhappy family who are now
bowed down by grief, nasals lams iti attraatios. and the
actual sad. tensile] history of poor Family will be a family
record for geserstions to some.—BreoUps (Nets York)
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