Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-25

the arm and was sent to the hospital
at Louisville, where her secret was
discovered.
Union captain arriving at Louis
vile in the spring of 1863 was accom-
panied by young soldier, Frank Mar
tin," apparently about the age of sew
enteen. He Immediately attracted the
attention of the colonel, who detailed
him for duty at the barracks. A few
days later the startling fact that the
supposed young man was a woman be-
came established by a soldier reared
in her town. Born in Bristol, Tenn,
and educated at the convent in Wheel
ing. w. Va. this young Amazon had &C
quired excellent education and many
accomplishments. After leaving the
convent she enlisted in the I'd East
Tennessee Cavalry and accompanied the
Army of the Cumberland to Nashville.
In the heat of battle of Murfreesboro
she was severely wounded in the
shoulder. but fought CALAMITY and
waded Stone river into Murfreesboro on
the memorable Sunday on which the
Union forces were driven back.
Charles Martin when scarcely
more than thirteen. went to the front a S
drummer boy of a Pennsylvania regi-
ment and was universal favorite with
the officers and men. Not until after
many months, when he was stricken
with fever and sent to a hospital in
Philadelphia. did it become known to
any one in the regiment that the fair
drummer boy was, in truth, a girl.
Brooklyn lass, who, like Joan of Arc. be-
lieved she had been called by Providence
to go to the front and deliver her country
from peril. Her parents sent her to Mich
igan that change of climate and scene
might cure her of her obsesson, but she
succeeded in making her escape Going
to Detroit, she enlisted with a Michigan
regiment as a drummer boy and with the
Army of the Cumberland endured all the
hardships of march. camp and battle
Her sex did not become known until the
battle of Lookout Mountain, when she re-
ceived fatal wound.
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Near Chattanooga Col. Burke of the
10th Ohio Regiment exchanged number
of prisoners with the Confederates Among
the Union troops received was a particu-
larry handsome young soldier, Frank
Henderson" 1t developed later that this
warrior was a girl, and that she and her
brother had enlisted together in the 18th
Illinois The pair were orphans, and the
sister could not endure the thought of
being separated frous the brother, who
had been her only companion from baby
hood. At the expiration of her enlist
ment she next entered the Sd Illinois.
where her sex was not discovered, and in
which regiment she made most excel
lent record, being wounded in one engage
home only to re-enlist in the 10th Hi
nois. serving in all the battles of O'Mara' 8
regiment and finally being taken prisoner
at Holly Springs. She was then taken to
Atlanta. where. in attempting to escape.
she was shot in the leg. and even during
her convalescence in the prison hospital
her sex was not suspected. After recov-
ering she was sent to Graysville, where
she was exchanged and returned to her
Illinois home
In the annals of war there cannot be
found more romantic story than that of
Mary Owens of Danville, Pa. Resolving
to accompany her husband to the war
and share with him it's hardships and
victories, she went to the recruiting of
fee. passed the examination and gave
the name John Evans" Side by side
the devoted pair fought until a ball from
the enemy killed the husband After he
had been buried the soldier wife again
took up her musket and marched with her
comrades until the next battle, when, in
her turn. she was felled by bullet
When she was discharged this indorse-
nent was written upon her papers: "A
more faithful soldier never shouldered a