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

! River into Murfrccsboro on the mo.
morable Sunday on which the Union
forces We're driven back After her
sex was discovered Gen. Rosccrans. al
though favorahly impressed with her
/ bravery would no; allow her TO re-
main IN the service and personally SUI
| pcrintendcd the arrangements for her
safe transportation TO her parents
Another girl enlisted in a pcnnsyl-
"ania regiment as Charles Martin"
when scarcely more than thirteen.
| went TO the front as a drummer hoy
and was universal favorIte with Of
/ ncers and men. Not until after manv
months. when she was stricken with
! fever and sent 10 "a hospital in Phila-
( delphia. did II become known to any
one in the regiment that the fair drum
! ner boy was in truth girl.
a Modern Jonn of Are.
! one of the strangcst cases Of devo-
I ton to country was brought out i'm
/ the enlistment or a young girl at
I Brooklyn. y Y. who. like Joan of Arc.
believed she was called by Providence
10 GO 10 the front and deliver her
country from peril. Her parents sent
her To town in Michigan that change
of climate and scene might cure her
OF her supposed delusions but she sue
ceeded In making her escape, and go
ing TO Detroit, enlisted with a Michi-
gan regiment as drummer hoy. With
durcd al tho hardships of march camp
and battle. Her sex did not become
known until the battle of Lookout
Mountain. when she received a fatal
wound.
While near Chattanooga Colonel
Burke, of the Tenth Ohio exchanged
n large number OF prisoners with the
Confederates Among tho Union troops
received was particularly handsome
young soldier. who gave the name
Frank Henderson," 1T developed later
that this soldier was Il young girl and
that she and her brother had enlisted
together at the outbreak OF the war in
the Eleventh Illinois. The pair were
orphans. and the girl could not endure
the thought OF being separated from
the brother. who had been her only
companion from babyhood At the ex-
piration of her enlistment in this reei-
ment she was mustered out. and next
enlisted in the Third Illinois, where
her sex was not discovered and in
which regiment she made most en-
cellent record. being wounded in one Of
the engagements. She was again dis
charged and sent home. only to re-
enlist in the Nineteenth Illinois. serv-
ing in all the battles of Colonel
O'Maras regiment. and finally being
taken prisoner at Holly Springs. She
was now taken to Atlanta. Ga. where
IN attempting to escape. she was shot
iinement III the prison hospital her sex
was not suspected. After recovering
she was sent to Graysville. where she
was exchanged and sent to her Illinois
home.
Brave Nfnry Owens.
Perhaps in all the annals of war there
could not be found n more romantic
story than that OF Mary Owens who
enlisted AT Danville. Pa. This woman
wanted to accompany her husband to
the war and share with him It's hard
ships and its victories. She went to
the recruiting office. passed the exam
nation and gave the name John
Evans" Side by side. the faithful pair
fought until ball from the enemy
killed the husband After he had been
buried the soldier wife took up her
musket and marched with her com
rades' until the next battle, when she, |
in her turn, was felled by a bullet. |
When able to be sent home she was
discharged. and upon her papers was
written: "a more faithful soldier never
shouldered a nluSket." a few weeks |
after she had returned to her desolate !
home there came to comfort her |
handsome baby boy.
Ballet Girl Soldier.
There Is a record also of Fannie WILL