The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-09-14
A Confederate Heroine,

What a Southern Girl for Southern Rights
Can do Virginia Woman trho is a
Model Of Womanhood
A correspondent Of the New York
World, at Jordons White Sulphur
Springs, in Frederick county, furnishes
sketch of Miss Roxanna Mccormick, a
sensible, practical useful strong-mind-
ed woman, ind those poor, deluded
creatures who shrek shrillest for suf-
frage, will do well to ponder the story.
In the life of Roxanna Mccormick they
may not only find new barbed arrow
Of living example to shoot at the heads
of unbelieving men, but from her they
may learn new lessons Of wisdom, even
as Socrates was taught at the feet of As
pasia Her story is indeed but "the
short and simple annals OF the poor, v
relieved and frightened somewhat by
the halo she has thrown around her 9TH
erwise dreary, commonplace existence:
Left at tender age without kith or
kin, save superanuated mother, Rox-
anna grew mp to girlhood and thence to
womanhood, ceaselessly struggling to
maintain herself and mother. She found
few kind friends who would have aided
her, but the proud-spirited girl only
asked encouragement and an opportu-
nifty to work. She had % bright, quick
intellect, and found time during the
long winter evenings, with the aid OF q flew
books and the little assistance the failing
mind of her mother could give, to oimprove
it. She mastered the four fundumen-
tails, and, not satisfied with this, she read
with avidity, by the light of pine knots,
everything that came in her way. The
war came, and with it terror and desola-
ton to the dwellers in the Valley Of
Virginia By unremitting labor and
careful saving, this brave girl has accu-
mulated sufficient to buy little home
for herself and her mother, on the Pine
Ridge, south of the White Sulphur.
Here, by toihng late and early, she wrnng
from this pour soil sufficient for their
sustenance and little surpltis, the Sale
of which brought a few of the luxuries
and comforts of life. They were in the
very theatre where wars pageauts and
alas its stern realities also, were enact
ed. They could not leave their home,
for it was all they had; they coltld not
be false to their country, for the brave
girl was Southern to the hearts core.
The second year of the war tho poor girl
saw her mother die, and then she was
alone in this terror-stricken land. She
had warm affection for her home; for
the Iittls she had gathefsd af0und her;
for they were halloFed by associations
with her whom she had nursed, striyen
for, and loved so f0ndly and deYotedly.
She could not at that drcafy period re-
alize their talue, even had she desired
to part with them. SO with her charac-
teristic pluck and self-reliance she de-
termined to remain and see the end.
Up to this time and little longer, some
thing like respect had been shown this
poor, lone, struggling woman by the in
vaders. But soon gallant boy in gray
came that way They met and she loved
Then began ket Iliad of woes The
brave Southsrner would dare dangers
dire to see theanistress of his he&rt, and
soon the spies charged RoHahnn with
harborins the etiBmy, afid with cohvey-
ing ccrtrab&rd news to StCnewall, Mos
by and old Jubal Early A sergeant and
file Of Yankees came to search her
house and carry off the "she rebel" to
camp at Winchester. They came, they
saw, but she conquered. By strength
or strategy she disarmed the sergeant
and with his rifle she defied and defeat
ed his comrades, and drove them igno-
miniously from the field That rife
stands still in her neat little parlor, and
she handed it to us with fashifS eyes
and stately mien, and we read shoot
in those steady gray eyes, and doubt
not the tale. The chivalric Mosby heard
the story, and the next time he scared
the Yanks in Winchester he came to
Roxanna's, and after hearing the story
from her own lips, the dashing rebel un.
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