Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-22
soldier women.

From Chambers Journal
There have been and are women sol
diers. OF the real original Amazons Of
classic times we know. very little; but
some of the African potentates have
Amazon armies; and Mrs. Leonowens,
in her recent interesting account of her
governess experience at the court OF
Siam, makes frequent mention of the
body-guard of Amazons at the palace.
Of heroic women who have borne arms
in war we frequently find mention in
story. Marguerite Of Anjou, the Coun-
tess de Montfort, Joan of Arc, the hero
inc of Saragossa, occur to one as ex-
amples. During the civil wars, when the
cavaliers disgraced themselves by licen-
tious behavior in some of the towns
where they were quartered, the young
women of Norwich, we are told, resolved
to defend themselves, and petitioned the
House of Commons to form a maiden S
troop in the Parliamentary army. Wo-
men have, on many occasions,
donned mems attire and rendered
good service as private soldiers-gen-
orally impelled by some motive in
which a husband or lover was cor
cerned. About the middle of the last
century, a German girl, Anne Sophia
Ditzleffin, dressed herself as a young
man, enlisted in the militia at Goldberg,
served six months; then entered Prince
Frederick's regiment of cuirassiers,
served in it for two years, fought at the
battle OF Kunersdorf, was wounded in
the arm at Bamberg; next Joined bat
TALON of grenadiers, and was wounded
at Torgau; and did not resume her fem
mime attire and occupations until she
had seen four years of this strange soldier
life. About the beginning Of the reign
of George ILL., young wife Of eighteen,
feeling miserable at the absence Of her
husband with his regiment in India, en-
deavored to enlist into another regiment
Just going out She was frustrated but
il is pleasing to read that Sir John
Fielding promised to obtain for her the
position of lady's maid to some officer S
wife about to go out to India. During
the stormy times of the French revolu-
ton, General Cuisine had his atten-
ton drawn to the fact that a woman was
serving bravely and honestly as a soldier
in his army, and mad been wounded
fighting in the artillery; being dismissed
as a woman, her grief and dependency
we're such as induced her readmission
and she became aide-major in the staff.
During the Peninsular war, Spanish
lady Joined the din of battle under cir
cumstances which won the admiration
Of those who knew the facts of the case.
T.. ION ha-I.wl IN -,
command of battery at lsla de Leon,
and she was with him. A shot killed
him on the spot; his men, confused and
irresolute, wanted a leader; whereupon
she instantly took the command, claimed
and obtained the allegiance Of the men.
For an entire week she behaved SC
bravely that the general gave her her
husbands commission as a captain,
knowing that she would do credit to it.
An English officer Of the Seyenty-ninth
foot, who saw her, said that she was
dressed in full uniform, rode on horse
back like a man, and could not have
been known for other than man by
her appearance. A German woman
about twenty-five years of age, near the
conclusion of the great Napoleonic wars
presented herself before German com
mittee which was sitting in London; she
claimed relief as a soldier, and was able
to produce reliable testimony that she
had really fought for five years in the
allied army, and had been wounded al
Leipsic In the recent Franco-Germar
war, when the Germans entered LOr
raine, the highest official present in q
small French village, was the postmis
tress. The men and youths, able and
willing to fight, placed themselves under
her guidance, and did their little best
bravely; she keeping up good discipline
and issuing orders (let us say in strategy
and tactics as lieutenant The gallan
postmistress has recently been decorated
with the cross Of the Legion Of Honor
Arthur Fullerton. Of Greshen, Eng
land, wants to bSone Of seven TO cree
A costly monument to Timon Of Athens