The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-03

saAS SVS& IN plunge into the
e. WA (SSSlJ battle smoke,
-..Sc-y51SsN where is the diff
II r-ssAAo ference between
her bravery and
mans when she sends father, brother, hus-
band or son into the fight? 1t isn't tho
idea of pain that gives n man a 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 take up n life struggle alone,
and that, too, with her heart buried in her
soldiers grave. There would be no soldiers
if men rs men are had to bear the woman's
side of 1t. Mans courage is good for an
occasional squirt; woman's for n lifelong test.
However, woman bears off some honors
right from the lannon's mouth On the
Union side i'll the civil war military hero
ines came from every class and from every
stage of civilization. OF those who put OH
uniforms the record is hard to trace but
their dead and manglcd forms on countless
battlefields proved that the American anna
ION was no myth. Not to speak of these,
there were women who openly faced all tho
tcrrors and hardships of war. Michigan
seems to have cclipsed the record in this
class of heroines.
When the Second Michigan volunteers
started for the seat Of war in 1861 Annie
Etherdgc, young woman just out of her
teens, volunteered as daughter of the rcgi-
ment. Her dress was riding habit, and
she wore Il military cap as Il badge of her
calling. y 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 i'll the Army of
the Potomac. Her service was the relief of
.ls.sl. L
fire. Gen Kcarny presented her with the
"Kearny badge" for her devotion to his
wounded ut Fair Oaks. Once while band
aging wound for II New York boy II Con-
fcderatc shell killed him under her hands
Though not called OH to fight, Annie had
spirit enough to make II battle hero
At charlottesville she went to the out
posts with the slkirInishcIs and was ordered
back to the lines. The enemy was already
shooting mt the pickcts. On the way back
she passed Il line OF low trenches where tho
Union soldiers lay concealed, and spurning
the thought that the affair must end in II
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 'thosc fellows"
poured a volley into the hidden trenches.
Annie was hit in the hand, her skirt was
riddled and her horse wounded At Spott-
sylvania she turned party of retrcating
soldiers back to their place in the ranks by
Offering to lead them into battle No one
but miscrcant 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 Seclyc, who served in the
Second us Frank Thompson. Thompson"
and Martin" wore mems disguise. Bridg-
ct Divers was the wife of II soldier and
performed deeds of daring in bringing
wounded from the field under fire.
Two Pennsylvania regiments Carried wo-
men into battle i'll mems disguise-Chnrlcs
d. Fuller, of the Forty-siXth and Scrgt.
Frank Mayne, of the One Hundred and
Twenty-siXth "Maync" was killed The
Fifth Rhode Island regiment produced n
heroine i'll Mrs. Kady l3rowncll, wife of Il ser
geant. She is credited with having been n
skillful shooter with rifle and also brave
color bearer III time of danger. The wives of
officers were accorded great freedom of nc
ton ut the front, and many Il gallant and no
bic deed was called 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.
Ilrlo", Oh New York, was accompanied
by his wife, who attended the wounded Oh
the field.
At Antietam Gen. Barlow was badly
wounded and at Gettysburg again he was
rescued from the field within the encmys
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
i'll 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
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