Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-22
WOMAN SOLDIER DYING IN SANTA FE
 NEW MEXICO
Was Spy and Nurse in South efn Army-Captured by
 Union Troops.

Mrs. A. W. Dietz. formerly Miss Georgia T. Read. cousin or Attorney Benjamin M. Read. and a. one time a wealthy southern girl, later spy in the Confederate army, under 6en- erals Lee, Price and Boone. is cyins of paralysis in little adobe house in the rear of the home of David Con- gales, at Santa Fe. New Mexico.
 She is in an unconscious condition and her physicians say, her leatn IS only a oues ion of hours. With it, will end a career. which for romance, ad- venture ana tao wild scenes of fear ful war. is seldom found odtslde ihe covers of a lurid novel. Details ct the woman's Iite are lacking. BetJre she became dangerously II ard seml- unconscious, three months ego, she frequently told her husband and daughter of incidents h Ter career, but few of them are now recalled con nectedly. As nearly as can De ascer- tained her history is about as follows:
 Miss Georgia T. Read CMrs. Dlefsi, was born in Indiana. just across the river from Louisville. Kentucky. Her mother died when she was only six years old. With her father she moved to New Orleans, where E> established a large wholesale drug business. Her father became wealthy and the young girl was a member of the best social circles of the Crescent City. When General Butler. with his northern troops. occupied New Orleans. the drug store owned by her father was corfiscated and all of his property de- stroyed. The girl, thus suddenly made poor, taught in private families for a living. Her brother and father en- tered the southern army, the latter as a chaplain and hospital attendant.
 Brother Fell in His First Battle.
 The brother was killed in the first battle in which he took part. as a color sergeant of a Louisiana regi- ment.
 The girl, then just entering woman hood. promptly enlisted as nurse in a hospital corps, il is believed, with the troops of General Lee in the Army of Virginia. She was present at the battle of Gettysburg and other his torie fights, between the north and south. The work of a nurse was too confining for the brave southern girl, and she became a spy for the south ern generals. Disguised as soldier with her hair cropped close to her head. or dressed as the widow of a fictitious soldier. with her face yelled in crepe, she many times. snteIed- thc Union ms and securs6 information of the greatest sssr(t the South. She served at various times with the troops of General Boone and General Price. It was while with the latter general on a raid through Kansas and Missouri that she was betrayed by relative in WesIport Landing nov Kansas City, Missouri, and was cap tured by the Union troops She was sent to St. Louis with other prisoners and placed under guard there until the close of the war. "
 Met Mosby ard Jesse James.
 While in Missouri she net and be- came well acquainted with Col oEel Mosby, the great guerilla leader. and Jesse James and the Younger boys, outlaws
 Upon the conclusion of civil strife, she again became a teacher at Fred efickrown, Missouri. Upon her refus- al to take the oath of allegiance to the United States, she was ordered to leave the state and went to Illinois where she continued teaching. Tn 1866 sne met and married A W. Dietz. a wealthy miller, who owned large -four ing mills near Lincoln. Nebraska. Fire destroyed the mills.
 MT Dietz was left to make a living Tor himself and wife as best he might lie secured employment as miller at various towns, travelling With his wife over a considerable portion Of the United States.