Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-02-16


mans when she sends father, brother, hus-
band or son into the fight? 1t isn't tho
idca of pain that gives a man cold chill
when the bugle sounds 'ForwardV' but the
thou ht 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 take up n life struggle alone,
and that, too, with her heart buried in her
soldiers grave There would be no soldiers
if men az men are had to bear the woman's
side of it. Mans courage is good for an
occasional squirt; woman : fora 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
battletields proved that the American ama-
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, n young woman just out of her
teens, volunteered as daughter Of the regi-
ment. Her dress was riding habit, and
she wore military cap as badge of her
calling. A pair of pistols rested i'll 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
wounded at Fair Oaks. Once while band
aging wound for "a New York boy a 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 skirmshers 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
retreat she turned her face to the front and
called out to the men, Boys, do your duty
and whip those fellows" a hearty cheer
! was the response, and those fellows
poured a volley into the hidden trenches.
| Annie was hit in the hand her skirt was
/ riddled ard her horse wounded At Spott
/ sylvanta she turned a party of retreating
soldiers back to their place in the ranks by
offerin. to lead them into battle No one
but a mscreant could spurn that call.
The other Michigan hcroines were Bridg-
! ct Divers, of the First cavalry, an UNI
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. Brdg-
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-Charles
ID. Fuller, of the Forty-siXth, and Scrgt.
Frank Mayne, OF the One Hundred and
Twenty-siXth. "Mayne" was killed. The
Fifth Rhode Island regiment produced IA
heroine III Mrs Kady Brownell, wife Of ser
| geant She is credited with having been Il
| shillful shooter with rifle and also Il brave
! color bearer in time of danger. The wives Of
officers were accorded great freedom of ac-
tion at the front, and many IA gallant and no.
BILE deed was called forth by devotion to hus-
band first and incidentally to the cause.
Nine. Turchn, 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
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