Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-06-25


service to the Union army at or teal
t'ne 10y looking rs much like Paul
Cushman, the SPY, as she could. Tie
lady IL an own cousin Of Jed Davis
first Wife, WAS raised in the 50 :,h.
grew mp under the hansful lnaucn "a,
Of slavery, and has vi II Il with hor
slave-dealing relatives every central
slave nurket of the South. one could
not expect loyalty Ia grow from such
conditions.
young fellow from Wisconsin wen
South as n teacher and was engage
In or near ST. Louis to teach ME e
of hers, She Ind revolted aga n-t
slavery and vas looking for way
out Of the land Of her kinsfolk. In
three weeks after meeting her ME e'S
Northern instructor she took advan
tage of an opportune moment--a dark
night, think she told me and elopcd
with him 10 q better place Wisconsin.
War was then Il foregone couclusl IL,
and the call for troops was soon an
nounced. The private tutor enlisted IN
the Twentieth Wisconsin and was In
the battle at Prairie Grove, Ark, or
near there, at the time. His younE
Southern wife could get no tidings %
him after the hattie, and started from
Jefferson County, Wis to find h.m
She was taken possession OF in St
Louis by rebel officers. taken TO the
house OF one of them. and searched t0r
dispatch they supposed she had
They cut her cloak 10 pieces, str PIP d
new hat into seamless shreds. took
her purse and its contents. but gen
erously forgot to take the change of a
S. bin that was loose in her dress
pocket. Searched the remainder ot
her clothing In an unhe"omng man.
nCr teven for war tines. then told
her II she had any prayers 10 make eha
must make them pretty quick. She
| asked 10 he taken to relatives IN III,
| city Tebel officers 20 be identified
| They comp led and the relatives az
| knowledged that she was the person
| she claimed to be, but would have
| nothing more TO do with her Pau.inS
| Cushman. the famous spy, had hap
| pened to see her on the train, and the
| physical resemblance was so striking
| that she assumed the dress Of her (Rt
! that timel unfortunate rival and went
| boldly out of ST Louis the next dny
| in another assumed dress OF Ter
| rivals, and no rebel dared to interfere
with her lest the mistake Of the diy
| previous be repeated. and that dis.
patch" went on Its merciful MISSION 70
Union general
Two days after her ST Louis expert
ence she narrowly escaped treatment
to tar and feathers by the timely up
| Iearance of a Union soldier doing
| guard duty at Pacific City, twenty Ave
miles from St Louis. She had gone
| there 10 visit her neither. The 81 I'm
| change being al the money the "cEiv-
| airy" left in her possess sion. her search
| for a Union husband was abruptly
ended She was writing letter 10
| him when n little knot OF Missouri
| hushwhaCkers rushed into tho house
with their tar kettle and the Un,on
! guard stationed four or Ave miles dis
| tant rushed In on the noble Nj ssouri
| ans His name WAS Ghost He had
| 4 slight acquaintance with young
| sister Of the lady, and supposed She
was the one the hwhackers were
after. He would have gone to he de
Tense anyhow. 1t was one instance ~
the war where "one Southern gentl t.
man didn't lick twenty Yankp.' Does
anyone remember the circumstance n.-
| the MANI
Having rcnouuccd the Southern
her. ana her money being gone. she
could neither follow her husband n9r
return to his Northern home. ~ sic
wont to work at that which came near
est for the Union cause. IN hospital
or anywhere that she could do nj an.
and did not see her husband mtu She
war was over. Once when In cam
al New Orleans he started Ike hap.
py whirlwlnd to meet his wife I'm
agine his disappointment. II wa
Pauline Cushmau riding into camp
with an important dispatch for he
commanding general.
The Grand Army has no truer friend
than the Southern wife OF the Tween
tieth Wisconsin soldier. the physical
counterpart Of the famous spy ~ the
Union army, Southern woman her
self American Tribune.
ENpoupdinR the Constitution.
Tn mi, IA
friends at school went 10 their hoa,cs
for their summer vacation A ypm
later one ~ them. swinging along via
bis battalion spind the other as Il rupm
bcr Of another body Of soldiers. Ills
greeting was Of the familiar tyre. tol.
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