The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-05
"ABour LIKE HER..
Dr. Mary Walker Writes rnteresting Letter in RefutatiOn of Certain
 Statement.

A<ChtCE lM ENcIUtWtAOM OK certain
 Statement.
 Editor of The Montgomery Advertiser:
 As Journalist to say nothing about gentleman, request you to publish the amende honorable which will he done by publishing this letter, and please send me a copy of The Adver- tiser containing the same.
 This is in answer to a 30th April. 1908, article. with the above heading, was copied from The Chattanooga Times. whose editor credited Major Bark sdale. editor of Leaf Chronicle Tenn, with having related the story" which If true. had no connection with myself.
 Tn the first place never wore a "bloomer costume." but did wear the American reform costume. of officers dark blue cloth. Next. my hair was long all through the war falling to the Next, on Easter Sunday after the death of President Lincolhf put little silk flag draped with black crape on the altar as ''an offering" and that was all did. in "Dr. Reginald's church." and he called on me the next day and asked me to give him the flag. as he would put 1t on his parlor mantle" I was surprised to learn that he did not consider had already given 1t" to him.
 s | lfOUSut. pOAllcHtSS IGQuiTtQ ne 10 return his call. but did not do so. as the proper time for calls found me too busy.
 I trust that the editor of The Times, and Chronicle herein named, will feel that they have an amende honorable, as well as yourself.
 If Gen'l Gordon's family are living, they may recall. that when Mrs. Cor don was suffering with a toothache, and sent to Gordon's Mills for doctor, v a..H -A.9 n-l tooth. and would not take fee. A shell had gone through her house. and I thought she had trouble enough.
 When a message came that an only child was very i'll about three miles from Gord6n's Mills, my Commandant Gen. Dan. McCook. would not let doctor go at first, but urged the ease. and did not believe that there was "a trick to capture us" anl finally with himself and staff and orderlies. we went. It was beautiful child with tetanus of the worst variety. and as its beautiful mother looked at me so anx iously for hope, I could not pain her by saying how almost hopeless, was the case.
 On our return we had to go through a little woods. and as it was near dark 1t was difficult to keep the twigs out of our eyes.
 I promised. and intended to visit the case next day, but I never saw 1t again, although I urged the importance of anoth CT visit.
 At one time a young man was suf- fering with typhoid fever, and was not allowed to visit him but once. He had been 'conscripted," and had hid in the timber until he took se- were cold.
 The day before my visit. soldier l had returned from a furlough, and gave me a very large orange, the only | one seen in a long time and when l | thought of dividing it, at our post, | concluded the pieces would be so smafi, | that I took 1t from my pocket. and | gave it to the sick young man, as | could not feel so selfish as to eat 1t | alone.
 As no doctor was obliged to go "outside the lines" I was the only one who volunteered to go, knowing | that the poor families did not make | the war.
 One afternoon a woman and two It, l tie children, with a bag, rode on horse to our headquarters which were in the house occupied by family. and slept in the same room with them | The woman came to get some meal | stating that she was entirely out and supposing 1t could be had at Gordon Mills. She came five or SIX miles and I told my host that it would not be safe for her to go back that night and | I could sleep with her children In the 1 trundle he'd. I offered her the nice | long he'd but the children were taken with their parent into the bed as she declined to have me sleep in the trun- | dle bed. She and her chillren slepi l there. I asked McCook to have hel | bag filled. but he said "the govern | ment was not supporting the familie: who were fighting us.' but l urged | the humanity of the case. He sait "it would not do as a dozen womer with children would, come on the sam l errand in twenty-four hours I ar gued that I would make the woman l promise moi to come again and not le a soul know where she got tne meal Ii was given to her and could hardl! | keep from weeping when sa" nov happyt 1t made her. ,
 one day I was sent for to 'cut froI out of a woman's hand. We al laughed at the expression; but m | hand was far from being laugnlni l matter; but my lance, ana dlrectloh | soon removed "the frog
 never took but one rec ana Una S6 was A greenback. and urged upo
 me after I had attend an obst' case But I gave 1t to a poor girl whos mother had asked me to let he daughter take my horse to go to Rim gold to get some thread" (we calle It cotton yarnl, "Her horse was moor that it could not go and retur
 in dav" told her if she woul let me wear one of her s9Mns sis a. anu 5n. ha I would go with her, as ! olu noe uai a.i
 let the Government horse out or m
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