The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-25

| son, who enlisted in the Twcnty-fourth
New Jersey that she nigh, serve with
! her sweetheart, a member of the same
! regiment. lie knew nothing OF her
/ ACTON. but she saw him every day and
came near being assigned To the same
/ mess tent with him. The regiment
Iought through the first campaign i'm
/ western Virginia. the girl soldier car
iying herself valiantly, but after tho
command was ordered before Vicksburr,
her lover was wounded and without
revealing her sex. Miss Wilson nursed
him. Sho made herself known TO hin,
Just before he died. Then. failing III
| herseIf, as soon as he had been buried
she was sent. with q large number o
SICK and wounded, TO Cairo. Ill. where
her sex was revealed Upon her re-
covery she was dismissed from the
service. Now. being thrown upon her
own resources In Cairo she for time
served an engagement as a ballet pir,
bur soon went to Memphis and enlisted
again, this time in II cavalry regiment.
the Third Illinois with which she
served until arrested as n woman spy
in mans clothing. Upon estahlishinc
her innocence she was provided with
an outfit OF womnn's clothes and sent
back North
Those bloody DAYS produced no ANA
zon more plucky than Bridget Divers.
who went out with the First Michigan
with which she served variouslv ne
or the regiment. nurse. hospital stew
ard. ward master and sometimes as
surgeon Sharing all the dangers Of
the brigade I'm the field. she had sew
cral horses killed under her and lost
eight or ten. altogether. in the course
of the war. She slcp- on the ground
like soldier and after tho war Joined
detachment that crossed tho Rockies
Tor the Indian service
The Irony Of Fntc.
One of the few women pensioned bv
the government for Civil war service
other than nursing was Mrs. Sarah
r. Thompson. n Tennesseean. who lod
Il iorce or Union cavalry 10 the hiding
place of General John r Morgan upon
the eve OF his death In battle II was
the irony OF fate that after performing
such per'lous service unscathed. Mrs
Thompson. a generation after the war.
should have been killed by street
car In Washington. n. e, where she
was employed as clerk in the treas
sury.
OF course, no record of this kind
can omit the late Clara BARTON. who. as
FREQ lance nurse. became famed as
the Florence Nightingale of the Civil
War. and who in later years headed
our Red Cross Society. before it's re-.
organization.
So far as known the country boasts
of only six monuments erected 10 the
memory OF individual heroines of the
civil War On the battlefield Of Get
tyshurg there is ono dedicated by the
Women's Relief Corps of Iowa as
memorial to Jennie Wade, who was
killed in her home the morning OF July
2. while baking bread for the Union
soldiers during the battle.
There is n monument at Adrian.
Mich, to AUNT Laura" Haviland.
Quakeress. who did mighty things for
the release of slaves, and was eminent
as n nurse during the Civil War.
Mary Ann Bickerdyke. another fam
GUS army nurse, has monument In
the public park at Galesburg. III.
On the battle-ground of Guilford n
c., is.a bronze statue Of Mrs. Karen.
happuck Norman Turner, who rode on
horseback from Maryland to Gu,lford
and nursed to health her son, who had
been badly wounded In the battle.
And at Gadsden. Ala, there "a
statue OF Emma Samson, a. Confedera.
ate heroine. who guided General For
rest over the mountains Of Alabama
Copyright. 1913. by John Elfreth
Watkins.)