The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-05-24

III
W women have not won this
KIND of celebrity. The Civil war was
certainly no exception.
There were many girls who fought
through the war Oh both the Union
and Confederate sides. For example,
Dr. Mary Il. Walker received com
mission as assistant surgeon, and went
through the war with IT., but there
were many women who enlisted and
went through hard service without
making Doctor Walkers reputation.
For example, there was Frances Hook,
n fourteen-year-old girl who enlisted
with her brother at Chicago. The two
enlisted In the SiXty-fifth Illinois and
were mustered out after three months.
Frances Hook, wearing male clothes,
enlisted In The Nineteenth. Her broth
cr was killed at Shiloh, but the girl,
| still wearing the clothes of a man,
fought through the war until Chicka.
mauga, when she was captured and
shot through the leg in an attempt to
escape. While she was a prisoner in
Atlanta, Jefferson Davis Is said TO
have offered her lieutenancy If she
would join the Confederate forces.
Frances, 1t is said, replied to Presi-
dent Davis offer that she would let
herself be hanged before she would
take up arms against the Union. She
had enlisted under the name of Frank
Miller.
In one Of the regiments from Ohio
Il girl enlisted. She was the sister
Of member Of the regiment. While
ut Camp Jackson and Camp Dennlson
she handled lumber, performed sentry
duty, and did other work of that sort
It was two weeks before she learned
that there were two Camp Dennisons
and that her brother was at the other
one. Straightway she made application
for transfer and failed. She wanted
TO go to the Pennsylvania Camp Den
nison, and she wanted to 20 badly.
The colonel of the regiment, a good
sort of fellow named Morrow, talked
TO the girl for some time and made
her confess that she was flying under
false colors. Without much ceremony
she was dismissed and sent home.
Just after the battle of Chcka-
mauga, Colonel Burke of the Tenth
Ohio exchanged large number of
prisoners with the Confederates. He
noticed II particularly clever and able
young man among the prisoners he re-
ceived-a boy who gave the name of
Frank Henderson. The colonel became
interested enough to inquire who Frank
was, and found out that he was q
girl. He, or rather she, had enlisted
with her brother ut the outbreak of
the way. They were orphans, and were
devoted to each other, and she could
not bear the thought of being sep
arated from him. He had been her
only companion from babyhood.
At the expiration of her enlistment
for three months In the regiment she
was mustered out. and next enlisted
In another regiment from southern I'LL
n0is, where her sex was not discOv-
cred. She was wounded two or three
times, discharged and sent home, and
enlisted again In the Nineteenth Illi-
nois. She was finally captured, and
bullet wound in her leg led to the
discovery Of her sex.
There Is no braver story in all the
annals Of war than that of Mary
Owens. She came from place called
Danville, In Pennsylvania. Her hus-
band decided to enlist. Mary went
with him; she and he went to the
front together; she had eloped with
him, and now she was ready to carry
her decision TO the limit. Man and
wife, they fought together until n bul-
let put the man out of the running
and even then the woman fought on.
A Southern bullet struck her in the
chest and she went to the hospital,
but on the record were written the
words "A more faithful soldier never
Shouldered musket."
In Brooklyn, N. Y. girl enlisted
and fought to the finish through the
war until she was mortally wounded |
in Hookers advance on Lookout noun
tain.
Fanny Wilson enlisted in the Twcn-
ty-fourth New Jersey in order to fol-