The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-07
Sue Mundy, the Guerrilla.
From the Louisville Co,Vter-Jopnal.

From the Louisville ColVier-JolrRdL.
A character i'll the late war, about whose
antecedents, career and fate there has long
fingered the fascination due to indefinite
knowledge, was the young guerrilla, Sue
Mundy. He was believed by many to be a
woman, and tradition asserts that he took
advantage of the fancy and often took steps
to confirm that delusion. Several months
ago there appeared in the Courier-JOUrN0i
an elaborate and graphic sketch of the
young adventurer, written by Mr.. y. f.
Allison, in which the scattered and varying
bits of biography and "reminiscences We're
gathered up and combined, for the first time,
and a consecutive narrative of the wild and
singular youth presented. While the fact
was clearly brought out that the Sue Mundy
of that article was man, 1t appears never
theless, that woman of the same name,
equally maynard and adventuresome, was
one of the figures which composed the bril-
liant, romantic aud changeful panorama
presented by the operations of the daring
and sensational soldier, John Morgan and
his men Ii was from her that the masculine
Sue appropriated his name, and it was due
probably to her actuality that he was able
to throw around himself the perplexing
illusion of double identity. The latest and
apparently authentic mention of her is in
the last issue of the Vdnceburg Times
luU paper Is q oNA ACo VI al III lNS
narrating the part taken in the conflict by
the Twenty fourth regiment Of Kentucky
Volunteers, and refer. ing to its movements
in the vicinity of Frankfort after the battle
of Perryvllle, the writer says:
Here we remained some time, and one
of our scouting parties, under command of
Capt. Barber, captured the veritable Sue
Mundy the woman soldier of John Nor
gan's command The guerrilla who called
himself Sue Mundy told many large stories
of the abuses that the real Sue received at
the hands of the Yanks. For the sake of
the truth, want to tell inst what hap
pened to Sue while among the Yanks
Miss Sue Mundy was an orphan girl, and
was raised by an old farmer living not far
from South Frankfort. She had become
enamored of the trappings of war, and had
appropriated one OF the old mans horses
and Joined John Morgan. When we cap
tured her she was having another girl TO
make her pair of pants, and playing the
beau to said girl-who did not know her
and acting the Confederate sol
der at the same time. None of the scout
ing party knew that she was a woman
until she was brought to camp and pre-
sented to headquarters, when she quietly
unbuttoned her jacket and displayed her
breast with the remark to Capt. Barber:
What do you think of thatP She was i'm
mediateiy released, and the old man who
raised her was notified of the capture He
came and got his horse. and Sue went home
with him, promising not to go to war any
more. She came back to our camp in her
uniform few days later, went over to
frankfort and back home again. A few
nights afterward she stole the same horse
and lit out for the Southern army. This
is all there is of Sue Mundy's bad treat
ment among the Union soldiers. OF course
she may have hedfd some choice army ex-
pressions, but they were no worse tina
those which saluted her ears among the
Southern men. We hope she still lives and
that she is able to recount to the young gen
Grafton her story of the war;