The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-02-02

unlike Nine. Turchin and Mrs. Etheridge
wore military trousers, as well as coat.
Miss Cushman was beautiful and well
known actress when the war broke out.
At the commencement of hostilites she was
playing in Louisville, and, mourning the
suspicion of being secessiOnst, she was
arrested by federal authorities. To test
her she was asked if 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 Gen
eral 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 fighters. She visited the confederate
lines time after time. Twice she was
suspected of being spy and arrested,
but both times she escaped by keenest
strategy
A BIT OF STRATEGY
Once Miss Cuslman was sent as scout
toward Shelbyville from Nashville, which
was held by Union forces, to ascertain the
strength of the enemy. Returning, she was
captured, placed on horse in charge of
two scouts and taken to Forests head
quarters Bafiled 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 federal
scouts had passed that way an hour be-
fore
Calling an old negro to her, she put some
money into his hand, told him 90 down
the road and come back screaming. "'The
Yankees are coming" He did as she
directed and, although the Southern sold
iers refused to believe him at first, he acted
his part so well they finally made off to
hiding, leaving Miss Cushman alone. She
escaped, but found it was necessary to pass
the Confederate pckets. To the first four
when halted she gave the countersign-a
canteen of whiskey-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, step-daughter of
Captain Dowdcn, and joined the first
Tennessee. She was only eighteen years
of aye when she entered the army and
Tennessee boys. She wore the regulation
sword and silver mounted pistols, was an
expert swordswoman, a sure shot with
pistol and could ride like an Arab. When
the order was given to reinforce Captain
Garrard Captain Taylor galloped, cap in
hand, along the line, cheering the men and
sidcred her Il mascot.
Mrs Reynolds, wife of Lieutenant Rey-
nolds Company \, Sevent enth Illinois,
was made an honorary major by Governor
Yates of Illinois for "meritorious conduct
on the bloody battlefield Of nittsburg
Landing"
In the prison at Atlanta, Ga, a young
woman was discovered DISGUISED as a soldier
She was Miss Hook Of Chicago known in
the Nineteenth Illinois us Frank Miller
She was shot through the leg and taken
prisoner. 1t was said that JEFF Davis
wrote to her Offering her Il lieutenancy if
she would enlist on the Sothern side. She
refused and was finally exchanged.
General Kirkland also tells of case of
monomania occurring in young woman OF
Brooklyn only nineteen years of age. She
became possessed with the idea that she
was a modern Joan of Arc to lead t. e
Union armies to victory. 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 drum corps of a Michigan regiment,
and finally succeeded in getting to the
Army of the Cumberland. How she sur
viyed the hardships of the Kentucky cam
pagn is a WONDER for she went through
it all, deluded as she was. During the
battle OF Lookout Mountain she was shot
in the left side, and her sex discovered
when she was dying in the surgeons tent
She was buried on the field.
These are only few of the most notable
instances of woman warriors in the late
war, but all officers unite in saying that
there were dozens of privates who served
with bravery equal to the men, and many
whose sex was not discovered until the war
was ending