The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-15

died suddenly. She left a large fam fly and was sincerely mourned by great circle of the tennessee Daugh- ters. with whom she was a practical and energetic worker.
 have restrained this sketch to the more benencent work of the southern women; but there were many ef them who displayed equally high traits in other lines of patriotic duty during tne war. I need not remind any of MISS Emma Sanson, the fearless North Ala balna maiden of IT, who piloted Forrest across that ford at Black Creek, over
 which he rode to capture streight and his army. For Emma Sansom--with
 the fanatical instinct lacking was the Joan d'Arc of the Confederacy.
 And there were the women who braved death and prison, to run the blockade | Into Maryland and secure medicines supplies and longed-for news.. GenIiy-
 nurtured and darlings of society, tmo ost of these were as example, the Cary
 cousins of Baltimore. Misses H9tty ana , Constance Cary were beauties ana belles. by right divine. but they were helpful, courageous and much, trusted; i; SO. mention of their name brings to the memory of every one. then behind the
 scenes the good work then accom- plished, and the risks they met and I rounded easily.
 I OfAm2llC ana Ld8lC Wd1 etiC 1S-- of Mrs. ONeill Greenhow of Washing ton, known from her beauty as The | Wild Rose" when she married Mr. lGreenhow Of the. State Department. \ She was sister to Mrs. James Madison cutts, and, therefore, aunt of Mrs.
 Adele Cutts Douglas. wife of the Lit- tie Giant" The gdashing widow came
 South at the. outbreak of the war. Dst | Ing loyal to her friends. She brought her daughter Gertrude and her infant, Rose Ingenious as daring, she was often sent through the sea, or, land, | blockade to carry dispatches. or puy medicines or stores. But one bright Sunday the Nashville" ran, past the dou bI e lenders at the mouth and an-
 chored of Wilmington. Mrs. Hreeh- how stood impatient upon deck; her baby in her arms and several thousands in gold stacked into her petticoat. Sne stepped briskly down the ladder, placed her foot upon the gunwale of the small lboat and slipped, She went straight to the bottom, anchored by the gold, drowning ere divers could reach her.
 The baby was saved and IS sun 4vlhs. va 1. but the Greenhow name Is extinct
 There was no avocation too 1owly, nor vet too high, for the war-women Of the South to fill. Caring for the dying and the dead was daily work; but the most picturesque incident was the bur ial of Captain William Latane py Wo- men unaided. His was the sole death in Jeb Stuart's famous Pan1unkey Raid around McClellan's rear. before the Seven Days fights. His brother, under parole, bore the body to the plan tion of Mrs. Brockenborough, living alone with only faithful slaves. She sent for a priest, but none came. Then she went, with the coffin she had placed the body in, to the home of her sister, Mrs. Newton, mother of the Bishop of Virginia. At sunset, that lady read the burial service, young girls and chii- dren acting as mourners. and
 "They left him with his fame, his
 country and his God" tsfs | The incident has passed Into history and lives in poetry and in very fac nous. but mysteriously lost picture, by washington. . .
 We have noble and unselfish women today, banded together for mutual strength ening. They are conservtng the history and the sentiment of the Old South and of the New" Equally they are determined not to let the dim and shadowy memories Of the past darken and lose themselves in the
 glare and refraction of the progress of today. T. c. DeLeon
 Mobile, Ala, Nov. 6, 1908.