The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-02-12

REMARKABLE WoMAN.-On Monday
evening masculine looking woman
named E. L. Siegel came to Meriden,
asking for assistance from the members
of the Grand Army of this city. She
was directed to s. A. Smith, Quarter
master of Merriam Post, and committee
investigated her claims. Her papers
were found to be quite correct, and tho
Post paid her board for the night and
her fare as far as Hartford. Her case
is very extraordinary one, and she is a
very extraordinary woman, if all told of
her be true. She is a German by birth,
but speaks good English, is about thirty
five years of age, stands nearly six feet
high, has dark hair and eyes, is of
rough, weather-beaten complexion, chcws
tobacco and swears like a pirate. Her
story is this: The beginning of the war
found her and her husband in Missouri.
and ill-prepared for the bad time coming,
so she dressed herself in male attire and
joined the Thirteenth Missouri cavalry as
private. She served two years, and
her sex was never discovered She fought
in the battles of Shiloh and Stone River,
and took part in eighteen skirmishes,
being once wounded in the arm. The
gentleman who favored us with our in
formation inquired if her sex was not
then discovered. She answered lin the
negative, and barring one of her brawny
arms, displayed a muscle navy might
envy. Her general development is like
that of man, being fiat breasted and
having scarcely any waist. She admits
that it is only by tight lacing she can
make herself at all of a feminine appear
ance. During her career in the army
she had muss with one of her comrades,
and they fought it out, the woman prov
ing the best man. She was discharged
at the end of two years service, and pro-
duced her papers to our informant for
examination, together with other docu-
merits from well known men in support
of her story. On obtaining her discharge
she procured an engagement in the Gov
ernment detective service, in which she
continued year, arresting bounty jump
ers and deserters, except three months
of the time, when she was employed as
nurse on board the United States ship
Tamerlaine, stationed at Galveston, Texas.
We had omitted to state that between
her discharge and employment in the
detective service she was taken prisoner
by rebel guerrillas and kept for fifteen
days. She was then permitted to go on
to Missouri. Her husband is now in
New York, sick and without employment,
and she is striving to obtain funds to
emigrate to the West. For this purpose
she is now on her way to friends at
Nashua, New Hampshire, where she ex-
poets to obtain assistance. A short time
ago she was insulted in the streets by a
New York ruffian, but she administered
a terrible left handler on the eye, and put
the orb into eclipse. Both she and her
assailant were arrested and taken before
a Police Court The Police Judge in
quired with what weapon she had struck
the insulting individual, and she replied,
with natures weapon" displaying a fist
that would fell an OK. The judge pre-
sented her with hawthorn billy, loaded
with lead, he had just received from a
prisoner, and told her to use that in the
future when moiested. She handles the
weapon like Trojan, and displayed it
to great advantage among the astonished
bdaders of the hotel where she stopped
last night. She leaves this morning on
the S:45 cars to Hartford, where she
will apply for further assistance to aid
her in reaching Nashua.-lHeriden( Conn.
RepubLican, Jan. 5.