The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-16

sex, Miss Wilson nursed him. She only made herself known to him just before he died. The girl herself became ill
 when her lover was laid away, and With a large number of sick and
 wounded, was sent to Cairo, Ill. Here
 her sex was revealed, and, upon her re-
 covery, she was dismissed from the ser vice. The girl was thrown upon her j own resources in Cairo, and for a time
 she served an engagement as a ballet
 girl. Then she went to Memphis and enlisted again, this time in a cavalry
 regiment, the Third Illinois. Her sex
 was discovered after a couple of weeks.
 She was held up by her guard and ar-
 rested for being a woman in mans
 clothing. She was taken to the office of
 the commanding officer, it being sus-
 pected that she might be Confederate
 spy, but she made it clear that she was
 good, loyal Federal soldier. She was
 provided with an outfit of woman's
 cltheS and sent back north
 A young woman named Mary Owens
 of Danville, Montour county, Pa., en-
 listed in order to be with her husband.
 The girls father had been violently op i
 were married secretly, and the young
 wife donned the United States uniform,
 enlisted under the name of John Evans
 in the same company with her husband,
 endured all of the hardships of the
 camp and the dangers of the field, saw
 her husband fall dead by her side and
 returned home wounded. Her sex was
 not discovered while she was in the service. She was in the service for eighteen months, took part in three bat
 ties, and was wounded twice, both times
 in the arm. She dressed her wounds
 herself in order to preserve the secret
 of her sex. She was a Welsh girl and pretty and clever
 A Brooklyn girl, whose name is not given: tried hard to enlist in several Brooklyn recruiting offices, without suc- cess. She went to Ann Arbor, Mich, where she had relatives, and remained with them long enough to ascertain the whereabouts of the Michigan regiments. Then she went to Detroit, where she joined the drum corps of one of the Wolverton regiments. Her sex was not discovered, and she was sent with her regiment to the army of the Cumber- land. She survived the hardships of the Kentucky campaign, where so many strong men went down. Her reg iment had place in the division of the gallant Van Cleve, and during the bat tie of Lookout mountain sehe was struck in the left side by mimic ball. The surgeon discovered her sex, and told the girl that her wound was mor- tai. She dictated a letter to her parents in Brooklyn, and (died within an hour after she was shot.
 Mrs. Belle Reynolds, the wife of Lieutenant Reynolds, of Co. A, Seventh Illinois regiment, was with her hus- band during several heavy battles in cluding that of Fort Donelson, and for her valiant conduct she was commits stoned major by Governor Yates of Illinois. Mrs. Reynolds, however, made | no effort to conceal her sex.
 A young woman, nineteen years of age, attending convent near Wheel | ing, w. Va, ran away from the insti- | tuition to join the army in 1862 She en- listed, undiscovered as to her sex, in the | Second Tennessee cavalry, and accom- panied the Army of the Cumberland to Nashville. She was in the thickest of | he fight at Murfreesboro, and was wounded in the shoulder. The surgeon who dressed her wound discovered her sex, and General Rosenchans was made acquainted with the case. The young woman was mustered out. Rosecrans vas very favorably impressed with the girls nerve, and himself saw to the ar angements for shipping her to her own people.
 She did not proceed to her home, but vent to Bowling Green, where she en- isted in the Eighth Michigan as regi- mental bugler. She was first-rate lonsewoman, and bravely endured the incident to the life of a sol Her. She gained some reputation as
 scout, having made several remarka- lie expeditions which were attended with signal success. She was a tall
 rl of good figure, auburn hair and blue yes. When her sex was discovered for he second time, and she was mustered ut, she took it good-naturedly, and vent to the home of her parents. This l oung woman stated that she had dis overed a good many women in the rmy, and that she was intimatel ac- uainted with young woman who cid a lieutenant's commission She ad, she said, assisted in burying three emale soldiers at different times, whose ax was unknown to any but herself.
 The history of Major Pauline Cush- lan, the Federal scout and spy, is fla liliar to students of the civil war. [iss Cushman resided in Cleveland, O., nd upon going to Louisville to take art in theatrical entertainment, she as arrested as southern spy by the ederal authorities. She proved her yalty by offering to enter the secret ,rvice of the Union army. Her ser ces were accepted, and her achieve ents are a matter of history. She enetrated the southern lines time and gain in the disguise of a Confederate tldier, and her identity was never dis ,vered.
 A girl named Annie Lillybridge of De- oft became betrothed to lieutenant
 the Twenty-first Michigan, and de- rmined to share the fortunes of war ith him without his knowledge. She listed in the same regiment, but in lother company, and carefully pre- rved the secret orf her identity. One
 her comrades, after several months
 hard service alongside the girl in became aware of the secret
 to her sex but promised to hold his ace about it, and when he was killed
 battle the girl found his body on the 1d wac finally diSa h1p0 bV