The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-01-03
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I'm addition to everything else she
was a great organizer. After the battle
Of Perryville the supplies for the sur
geOns were exhausted and there seem
ed to be no way to supply the demand.
But Mother Bickerdyke was equal to
the emergency. She organized COM
pany of cOlored women who had es-
capped from their masters and set them
to work picking up blankets and scraps
Of clothing from the battlefield. Then
she had all the material so gathered
carefully washed and dried. and finally
supplied not only plenty of dressings
but actually fitted out Il large body of
men with practically new or at least
clean outfits of clothing.
1T is said that nobody in the army
had as much influence with either Gen
eral Grant o. General Sherman as
Mother Bickerdyke. They had come
to know of her courage and devotion to
the men and had found by investiga-
ton that her word could be depended
upon. Consequently she was feared
and hated by the incompetents and
rascals in all branches Of the army.
almost every union soldier had one
or more pleasant experiences with the
loyal women of the South, many Of
whom risked their lives time and again
in defense of their principles. Histor-
ians are now trying to prove that Bar
bara Frietch.e never existed, but
know of one case almost exactly like
it which can be easily substantiated.
1T was in 1863, and the rebels were
marching through MiddletOwn, Md.
There We're a good many people in the
town who were at heart loyal. but they
made no boast of public exhibition Of
their feelings. Mrs. Effie TitlOw, how
ever, was made Of sterner stuff. When
she saw in the distance the approach
ing rebels she took a large Union flag,
wrapped it about her shoulders. and
took her stand on the balcony Of her
house, Overhanging the street. There,
with the flag around her. she stood all
thC tihN tuC tCDti was PuSSihS
and looked conteInptuously down on
the soldiers in gray. II Barbara Friet-
chic is played out some poet might put
the story Of Mrs. Titlow into ryhme.
down in st. Louis there was anoth-
er similar instance. In 1861 the State
was trembling in the balance, and a
prominent merchant named Alfred
Clapp set the Stars and Stripes float
ing from the top Of his house. The
building stood in the midst of nest Of
secessiOnists and the neighbors were
furious. They waited until only Mrs.
Clapp was In the house. They they
called in body and ordered her to take
down the flag. She refused. and when
one Of the rebels started up the stairs
announcing that he would take 1t down
himself, she stepped in front Of him
and declared that that flag could be
taken down only over her dead body.
Every Wisconsin veteran will re-
membed Mrs. Henrietta L. Colt. Left
widow shortly before the war, she
threw herself into the work of nursing
the wounded soldiers with entire devo-
ton. She went. at one time. for in
stance to the Army of the Cumberland
and personally visited every sick Wis
consin soldier in the hospitals. Some
Of her trips up the Mississippi River In
hospital steamers were experiences
which would have killed an ordinary
woman.
ION her visit to the army about Vicks-
burg she organized, in connection with
Mrs. Hoge Of Chicago, an imprOvised
hospital on the same steamboat which
had brought her South. The boat was
packed with wounded men, but they
stuck to their posts. and how much
good they did nobody will ever know.
Up and down the great river Mrs. Colt
and her few colleagues Travelled in the
midst Of dying soldiers, helpless and