The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10
coWE SOUTHERN HEROINES.
,,xe FEATs PERFORMED BIZ
-gr WOMEN DURING THE WAR

--,n the Richmond Dispatch
90 S-Anhen d. Lee, who was most
- "a, The stars and Bars, when asE-ed
s.4eral oficer. after his surrender
,-..--5urr. why the southern people
HI give up. is reported 10 have re-
90. because the women OF the soulh
5,..5 never agree TO it, says b. l. IN-N-
,.. in an article on -Herolnes OF '-S
-r" Gen. A. p. Stewart speaks o.
...sa race unsurpassed for hero-sIn,
80 f--5s of charity and loving kindness
80 -.-+-sscrifcing and patriotic devotion
- --- cause Of their country, for uns NerV-
- .,us-ancy and perseverance IN "hat
.-., know 10 be right, and the nncoIn-
-...-.-q fortitude with which they ac-
.5 defeat and all its adverse conse-
-.i.-.as" To show the blood that was
-rar from wealth they met the con-
IONS that confronted them and submit
Fl, sacrifices cheerfully, going TO the
...=4-l,b. spindle and the loom 10 support
w widowed mothers and crippled fathers
and kindred. until our southland bios
4 .,-s with a heroine in nearly every nome
f love read Of the hero.nes in Napoleon's
~ Families of CleOpatra's enchan-
WHO tlAdlAAA Ee1eS--Nsh
s XIII, smile at history to obtain history
smile .n RETURN" Mesdames Iaineh' lie
-..sf Reeamier. Charlotte Corday, of the
deeds Of Joan dare. of Mollie Pitchef and
deborah Sampson of our revolution, and
4 T1rsqce Nightingale OF EnglaDd} DuI
& nm draw the line of COMPARISON,
.n r0int to women whose names anu
INC sin the war between the states
Mil surpass them in acts and DEEDS th@t
81. 9 Nna n
The battle of Nashville gave US nero
me whose name Gen. Hood placed on the
XII of honor Miss Mary Bradford, now
Mrs John Johns. When Thomas army
Vas pouring tine musketry into US ana
Hoods army was in full retreat, she
--sbai out in the thickest of the Storm
c0ud and begged the soldiers to stop
and fight. .,-,-. .,.,.
q 20U men, near Rome, Ca, resulting IN
his capture through the intrepidity OF
Miss Emma Samson, was an instance OF
female prowess long to be remembered.
Amidst the flying bullets, thrilled Win
patriotism, she jumped on behind Gen.
Il Forrest and plotted him across the Black
4 Warrior The legislature Of Alabama
granted her land, and the people lauded
3 her to the skies When HOODS army
on the Nashville campaign, passed Gads-
den this young lady stood on her porch
and The army went wild with cheers IN
her honor.
Another heroine IN zen. morgan > cav
airy tramp, on the line of Kentucky and
Tennessee grew to be a terror in her
section. She was as expert in horseman-
ship as a COssack, dressed in mems
clothes and handled gun with the skill
OF cracksman. She bore the name or
sue Munday," had many encounters and
her career was exceedingly romantic.
The old scouts in the west will remem-
Der two other heroines through whose
aid We were often saved from attack anC
told when and where to strike. Miss Kate
Patterson, now Mrs. Kyle, of Lavergne,
Tenn, and Miss Robbie Woodruff, who
lived ten miles from Nashville. They
would go into Nashville, get what infor-
nation was needed and place it In a de-
q signated tree, stump or log to be convey
ed 10 US by our secret scouts. I have
often wondered If the diagram of works
around Nashville found on the person of
Sam Davis was not gotten through them,
Notwithstanding the impression received
that it was stolen from Gen. Dodges
table by negro boy. Miss Woodruff
thrilled the scouts by her many perilous
achievements.
But l have a heroine of the mountains
Who developed in war times, yet on ac-
count of her obscure habitation and the
bitter heart-burnings existing between the
two factions. so nearly divided in her sec
ton, that history has not yet given her
name merited fame. / got her record from
the Rev. J. II. Nichols, who lived in her
section of Putnam county, three miles
LL1LLl LophGNiilCt l6llu I1GE name was
Miss Marina Gunter, now Mrs Joe Har-
u.s. Her father, Larkin Gunter, was
southern man, and some bushWhackers
Gaming TO belong to the federal army
resolved to Kill him. One night three of
lnem, Maxwell, Miller and Patton visited
his home and told him, in the presence
o. MS family, that his time had come to
ale. I1ey took him out from the house
and in a short time this maiden of II
heard the licks and her old fathers
sfoans, when she rushed to the wood-pile
got an ak and hurriedly approached the
scene. The night was dark and drizzily
ana the men We're standing by log, on
Whch they had placed her father and he
was pleading for his life. She killed two
win the AK and broke the third ones
am. He got away at lightning speed but
i affts5"afqs died from the wound She
slleu w her father and helped him home
soon she sought and obtained. protection
ron the federal general at Nashville. She
Eau afterwards, that upon hearing her
t@.nTI groans she grew frantic and does
nv, know, TO this good day. how she
managed 1t, nor did she know ANYTHING
Tnu she had cleaned out the plattef
Ints Is the greatest achievement of fe-
iale herolsm of its kind that has ever
DeeH recorded, and places Miss -Gunter on
pinnacle OF glory that belongs not
eoIe 70 patriotism, but to the grandeur
~ maj altecuon, the tie that stretches
lon me cradle to the grave spans the
heavens and is riveted Through eternity
10 me thrones of God on high'
IAeY talk about Sheridan's ride buf Ie+
nle ten OF one that strips it of its grand
D1-1ne famous run of Miss Antoinefte
OA, displaying herosm worthy of i'm
y. -shanle record. She was on the Ham,
5l|e turnpike, a few miles from Column
va. Ienn., when some one informed her
=, lIe 1ederals' contemplated visit TO her
ee@lHer nome on the Mt Pleasant nike
~ mics across-said pixies forming an
~ .'Se angle from Columbia She Lneur
uIal some soldier friends at her fathar's
"oI'o De captured unless they mad notice
Gnu IN order to inform them. she had ~
~ across the angle that was barrico de6
fsa-s times with high rail and rock
t~59a. mere was no more superb eoues-
~ st-5L le IN the valley of the TennesseeHand
was OF magnificent physique. She had
tnoroughbred horse trained IN I1er HI
80 me young lady started. leanino IN
LI-rs IKE raindeer, and came oII+ On
NJ NJ PIKE Just in front of the trooners four
- - from home. They took after ber
~ w.. Ner foaming steed was so feet of eao+'
it r-- s.ie got away from them in the tvrinL''
as, cam ~, ~ an eye, and saved her friends from,
lure. Supplemental to the above Az Az
tr'--"lls Is furnished by a lady who ba =
wv the countess since their girlhood
a. to-nette Wayne Van I.eer Poll = -,
name of this brave eirl o51,a - ui i
uo-or OF her maternal grandfat5a,,.S ~
W w. nephew of Mai Cen A,,tb "lo
"tne OF revolutionary fame q ~ ~ 'i, r,,li
aS eommander-in-chief of The o 80, VINO
--V TINE of his my al