The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-03


party in triumph. Not a man dared to fol-
low her; or, If daring. their old Virginia
chivalry would have prevented. But one
youthful piece of inexperience and deviltry
stood on his head in his saddle and in that
position dared the fair equestrienne to do
the same. Of course she laughed and cried
quits.
I am reminded by the noble work of Clara
Barton, the Florence Nightingale of the
present conflict, of a Southern Samaritan
of whom little is known by northerners. She
was a Mrs. Erwin. and she had hospitals
wherever the Confederate army OF the Ten
nessee could be reached. This worthy wo-
man died at Huntsville Ala, some four
teen years ago, after having established an
asylum for orphans of Confederate soldiers.
Another good woman was Mrs. DR.. Cliff,
(union, the confederate General Wharton
being her brotherO of Franklin, Tenn, who
was constantly on the alert to relieve Fed
eral soldiers whenever Franklin was in
rebel possession. In the same town was
Mrs. Carter, beautiful widow (rebeD, who
assisted in relieving the sick and wounded
of both sides Immediately after the battle
of Franklin, at Columbia. Twelve miles be-
yond Franklin, lived Mrs. Major William
Polk, who was neutral, with leaning to-
ward the union, her husband being ter
rifle opponent of the whole secession move
menu and the war that followed. Mrs.
President Polk was neutral, believing the
movement wrong, but with a leaning to-
ward the south, on account of the boys in
gray" l gave her many passes in 1923,
and spent many evenings at her house, for
L became very fond of this excellent wo-
man; and, besides the Polk home was en-
| livened by the presence of an attractive
adopted daughter. During October, 1862,
General James S. Negley defeated the Con-
| federates at Lavergne, near Nashville, and
| captured an entire Alabama regiment, in
Guiding its Northumberland and eight or
| ten other officers. These we sent to the
pententiary, but at the request of Mrs.
President Polk paroled the officers and in
structed them to report to me every morn
| ing at the capitol. In October, 1866 after
| the adjournment of the johnson provisional
convention at Montgomery, l was given q
banquet at the Battle House, Mobile, at
which ex-senator Benjamin Fitzpatrick
presided, and opposite me, on the left OF
| the chairman, sat the Northumberland
| had paroled four years before, who respond
ed to the toast of the brotherhood of the
Soldiery," during which he told of how had
paroled him on his honor until exchanged
and of the numerous good dinners we had
had together in Nashville a old man Rid
dleburger's and at Bassetts.
| Some other literary women and others
of the SOS and COS, whom 1 knew or remem-
Der of seeing, should not be overlooked.
| Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford of Wash
| ington, a noble character, still writing
beautifully for Harper's Bazaar: Madame
Octavia LIE Vert of Mobile a marvelously
pretty and attractive woman, and great
| favorte in Washington in ante-belum
days; Miss Augusta Evans, a forcible
writer of fiction, Il strange character, an
intense southerner, also of Mobile; Mrs.
Amelia Boomer, responsible for the cos
tune of that name, quiet, sweet-faced,
white-haired person, who was dressed like
other women when I saw her; Mrs. Annie
Stephens of New York, woman of so much
thought and intellectually as to be de-
prived of any personal beauty, the author
of Fashion and Famine and other tales
of the metropolis of her day; Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe, exceedingly prepossessing Of
face, form and manner; Mrs. Mary Liver
more, noble woman of hypnotic person.
atty Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker of
Hartford, the wittiest and jollest woman l
have ever met, and one of the most liberal.
human and cosmopolitan; Mrs Harvey
Watterson, mother of Henry Watterson,
who lived In Washington al the Ebbitt house
for twenty years, and was beloved by all
who knew her; Miss Ann C. Carroll of
Washington, daughter of a signer of the
Declaration of Independence, who once pre-
pared a sketch for Mr. Lincoln which was
substantially adopted in Sherman's march
to the sea; Anna and Phoebe Cary, the po-
cts, very plain and severe looking, but ex-
tremely radiant in conversation. The list
might properly be extended, although the