Show Woman Soldier in Rebel Ranks Unknown Heroine at Gettysburg GETTYSBURG Pa S AP-S Six AP-Six- five ty-five years have passed since the e battle ot of Gettysburg but e even en sChoolboys have In mind the main event of that decIsive struggle or of the war lk They know ot of Meade thrust Into command of a a. great army three days before It was to be drawn Into frito ono One of the outstandIng battles or of a century ot of Lee the bel beloved v cheered even by the wounded wound d am among ng his broken troops despite te failure and threatened s er Hancock who shed his blood do- do e- e fending the fighting ground he had reported as not unfavorable with good troops the taciturn Longst Longstreet Long Long- st street and many more But t there were some who played minOt minor parts In the pageant without with with- out military status and with no legitImate place In tho picture and also Won theIr bit of fume fame Among these was John Burns 70 old Year Gettysburg constable who I shouldered a musket On the memorable memorable mem- mem joined first dy of Jul 1863 and the skirmishers In the open field lie He te received three wounds fighting Was taken with the Iron Brigade de and Vied prisoner but he survived sur- sur to be embraced by Abraham Lincoln Among the foreign the vIsitors wIth Arin Army of Northern VIrginia at Gettysburg was Fremantle Lieutenant Colonel Guards Guard of the oldest regiment In the British ann army and About an AustrIan noon on July 3 3 Fremantle search visItor rode off In ot of a from whIch commandIng position to view viey the spectacle without Impending federal artille being exposed to ry tire fire They headed lor or the cupo cUPola of a church town ot of near the the Gettysburg Before the they artillery limits limita of the the- town the earth trembled duel ommen and the Somewhere on on under the road been joined by their way a they had horseback and a old year he bo boy on officers was wall with the when hen they h rode Into a crossfire Thill urchin Colonel re- re recorded took Fremantle est In the II a diabolical interest Inter Inter- and screamed bursting of the shell he a saw them the with delight ht when The visiting take efte- efte effect t. t the hazard WIth not view a as their the same enthusiasm and when ta two o shrapnel Young companion 10 0 near that Il a shell burst d decided to return KUld Was all hit they to rs Th boy 00 they nor did the they learn never hI hIs saw again name Ot des The Confederate Conre army ot of bad the A sl sin linG line of type In the official re- re records ot of the tho war department Is her epI- epI Reporting two days das aftEr the battle the burIal or of 1629 Fed Federal ral raland and Confederate dead at Gettys- Gettys Gettysburg burg Brigadier General William Hays Has concluded Remarks One private ate vate In rebel uniform Who this girl or woman was whence she came with what command corn com mand she fought or by what hat trick ot of tate fate she was swept Into the ranks or of Lees Lee's army are unanswered unan- unan Questions The woman may ha have e followed whore where Armistead led the Virginians Virgini Virgini- ans his hat on the point ot of hIs sword or she may have hae witnessed wit wit- the of C cOlor bear lor- lor bear bear- era In Archers Archer's Brigade but there Is nothing like this to be certain about An InquIry addressed to the war department regarding thIs solitary woman brought this response re from the office of the adjutant general Nothing lots been found of at record record rec- rec ord in this office by which the identity or of the fema tT private In rebel uniform burled at Gettysburg Gettys- Gettys burg and referred to In the report of General Hays IIa's can be 1 deter deter- mined S I |