The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21

Neither did these women go unre-
warded. There was Major Pauline
| Cushman, who. unlike Mn. Lurchin
and Mrs. Etheridge, wear military
| trousers as well as coats. Miss Cush-
man was a beautiful and well known
actress when the war broke out. At
the commencement of hostilities she
was playing in Louisville, and incur
ring the suspicion of being a secession
list, she was arrested by federal au-
thorities. To test her she was asked
lif she would enter the secret service
of the government. She consented,
and was at once employed to carry
/ letters between Louisville and Nash
! Vile.
Miss Cushman was employed by
| General Rosecrans, and was for
months with the Cumberland army
Major Cushman knew every road and
every house for miles, was the most
daring of scouts and intrepid of fight
ers. She visited the Confederate lines
time after time. Twice she was sus-
pected of being a spy and arrested,
but both times she escaped by keenest
strategy.
A BIT OF STRATEGY.
Once Miss Cushman was sent as
scout toward Shelbyville from Nash
vile, which was held by Union forces,
to ascertain the strength Of the enemy
Returning she was captured, placed on
a horse in charge of two scouts and
taken to Forests headquarters. Baf-
fed for awhile, she rode on. but at
last feigned sickness and said she was
unable to ride further. Stopping at a
house, Miss Cushman found that Fed
eral scouts had passed that way an
hour before.
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some money into his hand, told him to
go down the road and come back
screaming. 1.-The Yankees are comingr'
He did as she directed, and, although
the southern soldiers refused to believe
him at first, he acted his part so we'll
they finally made off to hiding, leaving
Miss Cushman alone. She escaped, but
found it was necessary to pass the
Confederate pickets., To the first four,
when halted. she gave the counter
sigma canteen of whisky-but the
fifth was more inquisitive and she was
turned back. She reached Rosecrans
finally, but was in the end arrested.
A GALLANT OFFICER.
Captain Taylor was another titled
woman soldier that General kirkland
tells Of. She was Miss Sarah Taylor,
stepdaughter Of Captain Dowden, and
only Is when she entered the army,
and through the whole war was the
idol of the Tennessee boys. She Wore
the REGULATE ton sword and silver noun
ted pistols, was an expert swordswo-
man, a sure shot with pistol and could
ride like an Arab. When the order
was given to reinforce Captain Gar
rard, Captain Taylor galloped, cap in
hand, along the line, cheering the men,
and marched in the van with them.
They considered her as a mascot.
Mrs. Reynolds, wife Of Lieutenant
Reynolds, Company A. Seventeeth I'LL
nois. was made an honorary major by
Governor Yates of Illinois for "meri-
torious conduct on the bloody battle
field of Pittsburg Landing"
A LOYAL SOLDIER.
In the prison at Atlanta, Ca, a
young woman was discovered dis
guised as a soldier She was Miss
Hook of Chicago, known in the Nine
teeth Illinois as Frank Miller. She
was shot through the leg and taken
prisoner. It was said that Jeff Davis
wrote to her, offering her a lieutenancy
if she would enlist on the Southern
side. She refused, and was finally ex-
changed.
General kirkland also tells of a case
of monomania occurring in young
woman of Brooklyn, only 10 years of
age. She became possessed with the
idea that she was a modern Joan of
Arc to lead the Union armies to vic
tory. She was carried everywhere by
her family to cure her, but she made
her escape from Ann Arbor, Mich,
went to Detroit, where she enlisted in
a drum corps of a Michigan regiment,
and finally succeeded in getting to the
Army of the Cumberland. How she
survived the hardships of theKentucky
campaign is wonder, for she went
through it all, deluded' as she was.
During the battle of Lookout Noun
tain she was shot in the left side and
her sex discovered when she was dy-
ing in the surgeons tent. She was
buried on the field.