Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-25
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faithful pair fought until a ball from tbs
enemy killed the husband. After he had
been buried the soldier wfe took up hc-
musket and marched with lrer comrades
until the reSt battle. when she. in her
turn. was feiled by a bullet. When ahls
70 be sent home she was dis harSed. and
upon her rapers was written "a mora
faithful sotlier never shouidered a mus
ket. few weeks after she had returned
10 her desc!ate home there came TO COM
fort her handsome baby hoy.
Frank Miller MAS the name taken hp
Frances Hook. a girl of fourteen. who &C
Chicago enlisted with her brother In this
9th Illinois, known thc Home Guard
They Served three months and when mus
tered out enlisted in the 18th Illinois.
After the brother was Killed at Pitts
burg Landing tho devoted sister re-
manned in the regiment and did her duty
until taken prisoner al the hattie near
Chattanooga While attempting 10 escars
she shot through the log. tho wound
disabling her for further service
There is a record also of Fannie Wilson.
who enlisted in the cath New Jersey THAI
she might serve with her sweetheart. :.
member Of the same regiment lie knew
nothing of her action. hut she him
every day and came near being assigned
TO the same mess tent with him. Tho
regiment fought through the first cam
paign i'm western Virginia. sthc girl sol
dier carrying herself valiantly. but after
the command was ordered before Nicks-
burg her lover was wounded. and. with
out revealing her sex, Miss Wilson nursei
him. She made herself known Ia him
just before he died Then. falling III her
self, as soon as he had been buried sh9
was sent. with large number OF sick
and wounded, to Cairo, Ill, where her sex
was revealed Upon her recovery shs
was dismissed from the service Now.
being thrown upon her own resources IN
Cairo. she for a time served an engage
ment as a ballet girl. hut soon went 10
MemnhiS m
a cavalry regiment, the I'd Illinois, witt,
which she served until arrested as \
woman spy in mans clothing Upon e.
tablishing her innocence she was provided
sent back north.
Those bloody DAYS produced no Amazon
more plucky than Bridget Divers, who
went out with the 1st Michigan. with
which She served variously AS acting
chaplain. vivandiere daughter of the reei-
ment. nurse. hospital steward. ward mas
ter and sometimes as surgeon. Sharing
all the dangers of the brigade in the field
she had several horses killed under her
and lost eight or ten, altogether, In the
course of the war. She slept on the
ground like a soldier and after the war
Joined a detachment. that crossed the
Rockies for the Indian service.
One OF the few women pensioned by
the government for civil war service
other than nursing was Mrs. Sarah. r.
Thompson. Tennessean. who led a
force Of Union cavalry to the hiding
place Of Gen. John T. Morgan upon the
eve Of his death in battle. 1t Was the
irony OF fate that after performing such
: perilous service unscathed Mrs. Thomp-
son, a generation after the war. should
have been killed by a street car In
WASHINGTON D. c.. where she was en-
ployed as clerk in the Treasury.
OF course. no record of this kind can
omit the late Clara Barton, who as a
free lance nurse. became famed AZ the
Florence Nightingale of the civil war.
and who in later years headed our Red
Cross Society. before it's reorganization.
So far as known the country boasts or
only six monuments erected to the mem
DRY OF individual heroines OF the civil
war. On the battlefield of Gettysburg
there is one dedicated by the Women
Relief Corps of Iowa as a memorial 10
Jennie Wade, who was killed In her
home the morning Of July 3. while bak-
ing bread for the Union soldiers during
the battle.
There is a monument at Adrian. Mich.
to Aunt Laura Haviand. Quakeress.
who did mighty things for the release
of slaves, and was eminent as a nurse
during the civil war.
Mary Ann Bickerdyke. another famous
army nurse, has a monument IN the
public park at Galesburg. III.
On the battle-ground OF Guilford, n. Co
is a bronze statue of Mrs. kerenhappuck
Norman Turner, who rode on horseback
from Maryland To Guilford and nursed
to health her son. who had been padiy
wounded in the battle.
And at Gadsden. Ala, there IL
statue Of Emma Samson. a Confederate
heroine, who guided Gen. Forrest over
the mountains OF Alabama.
Copyright. 1913. by John Elfreth watkins1