Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-21

| appearances ~ Deen stateQ tDat ner per-
sonal beauty and brilliant audacity disarmed
the sternest OF foes Her luck took a turn
however. she ran up against John Morgan and
Napoleon Forrest and Bragg. Morgan captured
her, but succumbed TO her dashing beauty and
offered her his heart and his interest in the
southern confederacy, a diamond ring and
| various other belongings. but she saucily put
him of. He was forced to take her to Forests
headquarters, which he did reluctantly. Gen.
Forrest-who is remembered particularly in
connection with Fort Pillow-was not one to
| succumb to a womans smiles or frowns either.
| WELL said Forrest, I'm glad to see You.
I've been looking for you for some time. but
I've got this last shuttle and intend to hold YOU
You've been here before, take 1t, and know
all the roads, don't you? And all tho bride
paths and even the bog paths?
Sr, she replied as she drew her form to
Its proudest pose, every word you utter is
never been here before and should like to
send bullet through the man who is mean
enough to make the charge"
'Yes and I'd send one through you IL could
II you dared repeat the assertion. But you've
| Sot good fighting stuff in you if you are
| woman"
From Forrest she was taken before Gen.
| Bragg, sentenced to court martial, was found
| guilty OF being a spy and sentenced to be
| hanged. The only thing that saved her pretty
neck at tho time was her falling seriously i'll
with typhoid fever, she was taken to prison
instead and for several weeks lowered between
| life and death, the victim OF insufficient food
and no care. After the fall OF Richmond the
troops entered the city and colonel in Gen
Granger's division, while passing a seemingly
deserted building decried a woman in q white
night dress, feebly waving to him from one of
Its barred windows, and fastened to the rescue
MISS Cushman had been cruelty deserted by
her captors, who left her locked in her cell.
She suffered for years from three different
wounds received while in the service and was
always very proud OF the title Of major" con-
ferred upon her by Gen. James A. Garfield
AN ILLINOIS DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT.
Miss Belle Reynolds. wife of Lieut.. Reynolds,
company A, seventeenth Illinois regiment, &C
| companied her husband to the front first as a
visitor. They had been married but few
months, and the thought of separation was
| intolerable TO both. Finally Mrs. REYNOLDS
persuaded her husband to permit her to re-
main with him. She was a charmincly beauti-
full woman, gracious and kindly to everybody.
! Her face was a familiar one where sickness and
| suffering were severest and she never tired of
| weil-doing. During tho battle of plttsburg
Landing. when the batteries were pouring
| deadly fire into the ranks on either side and
shot and bursting shells screamed through the
air, Mrs. Reynolds went with unGaunted cour-
| age into the thickcst of the fight where men
| lay dead il windows, like wheat in the harvest
! field, and helped to take to places of safety
/ thooS tudt COuAu Do moved ana lllOSc VINO ual
been mortally wounded She knelt beside and
| took their last requests and messages for far
away friends and did the little that could be
| done to soothe their last moments.
Gov. Yates and his staff were SO touched by
| the unparalleled bravery of the woman who
was as good as she was beautiful, that they
| then and there commissioned her daughter of
| the regiment" to take the rank of major"
| .'tor meritorious conduct on the bloody battle
| field of Pittsburg Landing"
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little ten-year-old waif whom they called Miss
Lizzie" and gave the title daughter of the
| regiment" They attred her in a full suit Of
regimentals except that her blue cloth was a
! dress brayely trcked out in brass buttons and
gold braid. She was a bright, pretty child
much loved by the men aad is said never to
have been spoiled by the attention bestowed
| upon her.
Miss Georgiana Peterman, attired In "army
| blue" enlisted in the seventh Wisconsin and
| served two years. Her home was in Ellenboro
and she was just twenty when she entered the
service.
| ENLISTED AS MAN.
One Of the women who had papers as a
private, but not as q woman, was Miss Frances
Hooks of Chicago. Her twin brother deter
mined to enter the army and as she could not
bear the thought of separation and there was
no one to object to the daring scheme she
dressed herself as boy and together the de-
voted twins enlisted in the "Home Guards, "
sixty-ffth Illinois, she as Frank Miller. She
was mustered. out at the end of the three
months enlisted for and her sex had never been
| discovered. Her brother had been killed in
| battle and to avengo his death she enlisted
| again In the ninth Illinois. She was taken
! prisoner at the battle of Chattanooga and in an
| attempt to escape was shot through the leg
She vas recaptured and searched and her sex
! discovered by tho rebels She NM cd
In Atlanta, but was given a cell to herself, sep
arated from the other prisoners of war and
treated with considerable kindness her captors
admiring her pluck.
While Iii prison she received a letter from
JEFF Davis, offering her a lieutenant commits
| sion ii she would enlist under the confederate
| service, an offer which she declined in en-
| phatic language. She was a pretty woman
with merry hazel eyes and masses of rich brown
| hair, and as she had again donned female at
tire she was satiated with offers of rebel love
and her liberty, one for the other, but she re-
| fused freedom at such price and remained in
prison for many months until liberated by ex-
change.
| Miss Annie Etheridge of Michigan went with
the third Michigan to the front and into every
battle fought by them, sometimes as color
bearer, often carrying musket and again ban
daging wounded legs and arms CT performing
the last sad Offices for the dead. Whenever the
regiment went into an engagement she was on
hand to take her share in the heat and burden
of the day. When the three years service was
up she followed the boys into the fifth Vermont
regiment and remained till they were mustered
out Of the service.
EMULArED JOAN OF ARC.
sad case, fully authenticated, was that of
young girl of Brooklyn, n. Y. Sho was but
nineteen years old and had just graduated with
high honor in the June of 1861. She was pos
sessed with the belief that she was a modern
Joan Of Arc and that she was called upon to
lead conquering hosts into battle. 1t was only
by forcible restraint that she was deterred from
going to the President and demanding that she
be placed at the head of tho armies. She was
sent to Michigan in the care of an old maid
aunt, hoping that the change would benefit her.
One day she was missing and no trace of her
could be found. Tho family was finally forced
to the conclusion that she had drowned herself
i'll the lake.
The girl in boys clothes made her way to
Lansing, Mich, where she Joined the drum
corps of a Michigan regiment. This regiment
was ordered to reinforce Rosecrans in Tennes-
see. She marched bravely and unsupported
with the troops as they pressed Bragg across
the Cumberland mountains and in every way
proved herself made Of heroic stuff Her reg
iment was in Van Gives division at Chatta-
nooga and In the sharp but decisive engage
ment of Saturday she remained unhurt The
next day, however. in a murderous ire, her side
was pierced by q mimic ball and the end had