The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-06-15

mans when she sends father, brother, hus-
band or son into the fghtt 1t isn't the
idea Of pain that gives man cold chill
when the bugle sounds Forward but the
thought that death will take him from his
helpless other self But If the other self
can stand it surely he can. Death ends all
for him, while she must endure the shock
of parting and takeup q life struggle alone,
and that, too, with her heart buried In her
soldiers grave. There would be no soldiers
If men as men are had to bear the woman's
side Of 1t. Mans courage Is good for an
occasional squirt; woman's for q lifelong test.
However, woman bears off some honors
right from the lannon's mouth. On the
Union side in the civil war military hero
ines came from every class and from every
stage of civilization. OF those who put on
uniforms the record is hard to trace, but
their dead and mangled forms on countless
battlefelds proved that the American anna
zon was no myth. Not to speak Of these,
there were women who openly faced all the
terrors and hardships of war Michigan
seems to have eclipsed the record in this
class of heroines.
When the Second Michigan volunteers
started for the seat of war in 1861 Annie
Etheridge, a young woman just out of her
teens, volunteered as daughter of the regi-
ment. Her dress was q riding habit, and
she wore a milit,ry cap as a badge Of her
calling. A pair Of pistols rested in her
holsters for use in emergencies. Annie
served four years, part Of the time with the
Fifth Michigan and always in the Army Of
the Potomac. Her service was the relief of
wounded on the field, which means under
fire. Gen. Kearny presented her with the
"Kearny badge" for her devotion TO his
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aging wound for New York boy Con-
federate shell killed him under her hands
Though not called on to fight, Annie had
spirit enough to make a battle hero.
At Charlottesville she went to the out
posts with the skirmishers and was ordered
back to the lines. The enemy was already
shooting at the pickets. On the way back
she passed line of low trenches where the
Union soldiers lay concealed, and spurning
the thought that the affair must end In q
retreat she turned her face to the front and
called out to the men, Boys. do your duty
and whip those fellowsp' A hearty cheer
was the response, and ''those fellows"
poured yolley into the hidden trenches.
Annie was hit in the hand, her skirt was
riddled and her horse wounded. At Spott-
sylvania she turned a party Of retreating
soldiers back to their place in the ranks By
oferin. to lead them into battle. No one
but miscreant could spurn that call.
The other Michigan heroines were Bridg-
ct Divers, of the First cavalry, an I'M
known In the Eighth and in the Twenty
fifth regiments who passed as Frank Mar
tin, and Miss Seelye. who served in the
Second as Frank Thompson. Thompson"
and Martin" wore mems disguise. Bridg-
ct Divers was the wife of soldier and
performed deeds Of daring in bringing
wounded from the field under fire.
Two Pennsylvania regiments carried wo-
men into battle in mems disguise-C Charles
ID. Fuller, of the Forty-sixth, and Sergt
Frank Mayne, of the One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth. "Maynen was killed. The
Fifth Rhode Island regiment produced a
heroine in Mrs. Kady Brownell, wife of q ser
geant. She Is credited with having been q
skillful shooter with rifle and also a brave
color bearer in time of danger The wives Of
officers were accorded great freedom of ac-
ton at the front, and many gallant and no
BILE deed was call cd forth by devotion to hus-
band first and incidentally to the cause.
Mime. Turchin, wife of the Illinois general,
went into battle and rescued wounded men,
besides cheering and inspiring the soldiers
of the generals command Gen Francis c.
Barlow, of New York, was accompanied
by his wife. who attended the wounded on
the field
At Antietam Gen. Barlow was badly
wounded, and at Gettysburg again he was
rescued from the field within the enemy's
lines by his wife. Mrs Barlow served at
the front in 1864 and died of fever contracted
IN the hospitals before Petersburg. Mrs.
Fanny l.. Ricketts,. wife OF the regular
captain who became major general, fol-
lowed her wounded husband into captivity
In 1861. Twice during the war she brought
him up from wounds supposed to be NOR
tai. Mrs. Gen. Hawley, of Connecticut,
also went to the front with her husband,
even to the far south, and devoted her time
TO the care OF sick and wounded soldiers.