Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-10-30
aNisfellaug.
LITTLE REBEL HEROINE.

Miss SCoTA NJ INsKEEP all our citi
zens have known as a forid and tropiea
little beauty, smart as lightning ana in
dependent as man a horseback. Before
the war, and perhaps before she had
learned that she was "of Virginia blood,
she was a pleasing and popular little dam.
sci, loved and esteemed BY everybody
She was fsvorite in her school, the
Xenia Female College, at which she
honorably graduated.
But, on the breaking out of the rebel
| lion, she of course followed the sympa.
lthies Of her father, an honest but igno.
rant and obstinate old farmer from Vir-
ginia, who had, we believe, sold some
slaves and invested the proceeds in
Greene-eoUnty land, and who was, there
fore, as ardently in faver of the slave.
holders war against the government as
Iif-he had never sold out his chattle inter
est therein It will be remembered that
some of US had difficulty in preserving
this old gentleman from the generous
violence of the boys in blue Early in
he hostilities a number Of our bar here.
whose loyal word was poverful with the
boys, stood up with him on the court
house steps and pleaded and promised
for him against the gathering wrath Of
an outraged public sentiment. And la
ter. when the notorious John Morgan
came through our city a prisoner, the
writer hereof privately warned him to be-
ware Of a repetition of such reasonable
manifestations and communications as he
made to Morgan on that occasion.
Thus he escaped violence. But he
could never conceal his sympathies And
ii, tighter never tried. In the very
! thick of the war. at a time when John
| Morgan was raidiug and ravaging the
borders o. Kentucky and "the regions
round about. she represented the rebel
/ f.g, a. Leiow stated; aud it is said the
! fac not a. below stated, was made in
Xenia. and that other female hands han
hers had to DO with its making. And
after the presintation, the pretty little
rebel came back to Xenia and boldly
boasted of it here.
This rendered the alumnal association
Of her classmates in college indignant;
and thew called a meeting to purge their
loval society of this little taint of trea-
son. They organized as a sort Of court
martial, we believe. with their iudgeadvo.
rate, perhaps. aud sentza summons to
Mss Scotia to appear and show cause Why
she should not be expelled. She repIf-
ed. in a little note by the bearer, that she
asked no favors of them that she had
no conduct to explain or eztenuate; that
they might expel and be blessed; and
that she respectfully begged leave to sub
scribe herself theirs with supreme con-
tempt.
This was admirable and bravo. What
else could she have done and showed her
self"a girl of Virginia blood"2 We like
that kind of grit in a man but in wo-
man it is calculated to excite enthusiasm.
1t was a hot shot in the association. It
broke up the court-martial in jify. No
further proceedings were had and the
public has never learned but that the
name of Miss Scotia stands among the
honored names Of the society to this day.
With this uniDtendedly lengthy pref
ace, Wetrauscribe the following marriage
notice from the columns Of the Lexing-
ton Observer & Reporter, a rebel news
paper of the confederate state OF Ken
tucky:
"Some years ago at the head of com
pany Of Confederate cavalry we took pos
session of Harrodsburg. The Southern
ladies of that generous place hurriedly
made beautiful Confederate flag and
presented it to the oampany. The pre-
sentation speech, eloquent and graceful,
was made by girl of Virginia blood, but
Ohio residence. She aYowed her delib-
crate purpose never to wed any but
fighting rebel