The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-03
ALONE OF HER SEX.

Mrs, R. R. l.. BroWnell Is a Member
 of the G. A. R. and Earned the Di-
 sttinctiona el.
 No more striking figure marched in the Memorial day parade that Mrs. R. R. L. Brownell, a trim little woman who carries her years well but limps slightly as the result of Confederate bullet wound received in the battle of Bull Run. To the veterans of the Army she is affectionately known as kady Brownell, for Kady was the bap- tismal name bestowed upon her by her father, Col. Southwell, a British soldier in South Africa, in honor of his friend and fellow officer, Sir James Kady.
 She is the only woman, it is said, who ever enlisted in the United States service as a soldier, rendered active service as a woman and received her !. discharge and pension as a woman. She is the only woman who has ever been admitted to the Grand Army of the Republic and holds all of it's three degrees, and she glories in the fact that her pension came to her not by special act of Congress, but in the course of Government routine. Cor- SplCuOQS III llCl piuS UIOuot ditu ShIIL girt in at the waist with a broad Zou- ave sash, she tramped along beside her husband in the front rank of what is left of the Veteran Zouave Corps, the shrunken remnant of that band of lghters whose bright scarlet Turkish trousers made them a brilliant mark for musketry in the earlier fights.
 Three days before the war began Mrs, BroWnell was married, and with her husband, then a stalwart six foot CT, she enlisted in the First Rhode Is- land for the stormiest honeymoon ever known to woman. For 2 years and il months she shared in the marches, campaigns and battles of Burnside's Corps, passing first into the Fourth Rhode Island Volunteers and finally into the Fifth Rhode Island. At first Kady was regarded as a sort of vii vandiere and was dubbed "the daught- CT of the regiment but she aspired to more than this and soon she became crack shot with a rifle and no soldier of her regiment was her superior at a slashing sabor stroke. Besides Bob Brownell, her sturdy husband, she al- ways marched in the ranks, wearing her blue flannel blouse, @ full skirt, falling to the ankles, and broad brim- med hat with an ostrich plume droop- ing over one side. In the first battle of Bull Run she was driven back with her regiment and was seriously wound ed in the right leg. She dressed the wound herself was mounted on a horse and rode 34 miles to small town near washington.
 In the battle of Newborn Mrs. Brow nell probably saved her regiment by an act of extraordinary courage. With her command she was charging on a battery of Confederate guns and they were we'll in advance of the main lines, when another command of the Union forces coming up on the flank of the Rhode Island boys mistook them for the enemy and in the con- fusion of battle opened upon them a galling cross fire. Soon men were dropping all around her. The color sergeant fell and then Kady Brownell, saizing the flagstaff lifted high the regimental colors and, bearing them aloft rushed straight into the fire of the advancing command. The attack ing force, seeing the coors of the North. ceased fire and the Rhode Island command was probably saved from annihilation. .-,'
 Since the war Mir. and Mrs Brownell have lived in New York. She is now