The weekly examiner., 1901-05-25
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WOMEN MID FOUGHT. l Daughters of America Who
 Followed the Flag.
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Very few people have the slightest conception of how many women entered | the army in the war of the rebellion and carried muskets, tramped through marsh es and over mountains, bivouacked on the
 plains and lodged rebel shot and shell in the forest during the years from 1861 to 1865. Mrs. Livermore says in My Rec ollections of the War;"
 ~- Some .oneA x has stated the number of 1 women soldiers known to the service as little less than 400. I cannot vouch 1 for the correctness of this estimate, but
 I m"convinced% that aslarger number of
 women disguised themselves and enlist 1 ed in the service for one cause or an other than was dreamed of. Intrenched in secrecy and regarded as men, they | were sometimes revealed as women by accident or casually. Some startling his tories of these military women were cur
 rent in the gossip of army life, and ex- travagant and unreal as were many of the narrations one always felt that they had foundation in fact"
 One of the most successful instances of
 woman's work in the war is a matter of
 record in history and dyed deep with the
 blood of the brave men who fell during the Tennessee campaign. It was wo- man who planned that campaign, Miss Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, lineal descendant of Charles Carroll of Car .rollton. Miss Carroll was a woman of
 splendid intellect, great culture and in tensely loyal to the cause of the Union.
 She wrote many articles about the causes
 leading up to the rebellion and published
 several pamphlets in which she discussed the problem of war and its solution. President Lincoln was much impress
 ed by her strong personality and thor ough knowledge of the situation that she became one of his trusted advisers and was admitted to his presence at all times.
 Her letters to him, now among docu- ments of state, had a special pigeonhole on his desk.
 The only woman on record as having
 regularly enlisted in the war of the re bellion as woman was Mrs. hady
 Brownwell. She was the daughter of Scotchman, an officer in the British army,
 and was born in the barracks at Caffarai,
 Africa, where her father was stationed
 in 1S42. While visiting in this country
 she married a young man in Providence
 named Robert $. Brownwell. MT. Brown
 we'll enlisted in the First Rhode Island
 the day after the colors were seen down.
 at Fort Sumter.
 The First Rhode Island speedily made up it's complement of ten companies of
 100 men each and had so many over that
 Supplement" was formed of the 'left overs'' and called the ''Carbineers'' or
 "Sharpshooters," and Kady Brownwell,
 regularly enlisted, was made its color
 bearer. Although we'll versed in the arts
 of English warfare, she set herself to
 learn all the Accomplishments" of an American soldier. She became a skillful
 shot with the carbine, and no one in the
 regiment was her equal at a slashing sa Der stroke. She marched beside her hus- band, asking no favors because of her sex. carrying her flag and always wear ing the accouterments of q soldier.
 i The Nineteenth Illinois had a 3sdaugh- ter of the regiment" in the person of the | wife of it's colonel Mime. Turchin, as she
 was always called, was the daughter of Russian officer, and, like Kady Brown | well, was born in a foreign camp and grew up in the midst of wars alarms. She had been great favorite with her | fathers command and was fond of army | life, so when her husband entered the 1 army she was not displeased, but follow
 ed his fortunes and became as great fa-
 vorite in the American as in the Russian command. She was woman of splendid | physique and handsome. She was most | intensely loyal to the Union and would g. | to even greater length than her husband
 in her devotion to her adopted country i Bridget Devins, better known to the
 boys, perhaps, as Fighting Biddy" or
 Michigan Bridget" was with the First
 Michigan cavalry, in which her husband
 was q private. She was Irish, with all
 the Irish characteristics as to features
 and form, and though she had a temper
 as warm as her hair was red she was | jolly and full of humor, which made her
 most acceptable companion at all times She was an excellent cook, delightful nurse, a crack shot and endowed with a daring disposition which baked at no
 step taken in the cause of loyalty. She
 marched beside her husband. If a soldier dropped from the ranks, she seized his gun and took his place. On the battlefield she often caught the colors from the
 wounded or stampeded standard bearer and never failed thus to rally the retreat ing troops. She brought the wounded
 from the field and cared for them tender ly. When the war was ended and the
 regiment mustered out of service, Bridget
 and her husband joined the regular army and went to one of the posts on the | plains.
 One of the picturesque feminine char | acters of the war was Miss Pauline Cushman, known later as Major Paul." Miss Cushman was of French and Span-
 ish blood, born in 1882 in New Orleans. She was educated and cultured to a | high degree, but seems to have been
 born with a love for doing startling
 things. She adopted the stage as a pro-
 fession and made quite a name in that | line. Miss Belle Reynolds, wife of Lieuten-
 ant Reynolds, Company A, Seventeenth
 Illinois regiment, accompanied her hus- 1 band to the front first as a visitor. They
 had been married but a few months, and
 the thought of separation was intolera- | b1e to both Finally Mrs RavnoldS ror
 suaded her husband to permit her to re-
 main with him. She was a charmingly
 beautiful woman, gracious and kindly to
 everybody. Her face was a familiar one
 where sickness and suffering were se-
 verest, and she never tired of we'll do-
 ing. During the battle of Pittsburg Landing, when the batteries were pour