| Show oO obO o o fl a a ao o ono a o o o Via THE w WOMAN M l lIN IN W WA A RI R MEMORIAL SEASON Recalls Stories of tier lIer Courage and Sacrifices ao oooo aa o o o o o o o o o ao oo o oo o o ao arose oo ao o ao i o OGot aora WIns ware have A heroines tu as bravo brave and self Hit seen as al Ute the wives and of the ot of South Africa anti and the recurrence ot of the memorial MAlOn I a tilling time to consider the services ot of thOle ho have been honor honored ed by the tha recognition ot of the army and the of er veterans In the rank of 0 bon and as nurses urN 1 field of and In hospitals nt at atthe the front h devotion to duty was Wall i with suffering often onen ending In were found th the modern j Joan ot of Arc Ara and Florence Nightingale Memorials ot of war would therefore be incomplete did they tall fall to perpetuate I the tory story o of inertial heuM i Deborah Sampson the heroine of 1716 was an enlisted serving In the disguise ot of a 1 men man like many of the Boer DOlI women there were wre scores ot of cases ot of the kind discovered b by noel acel dent In the shit scar far Molly Mol Pitcher ot of Monmouth renown volun ed for tor time the emergency of battle And both the north and the south lOuth found women tu to bravo brno every danger danler at the rail call or of duty In a higher while the crisis ot of 1776 had Its Mrs Philip Mrs N arena and Martha Mattha Wash Washington ington patient and tender In Inthe inthe the camps of their civil war anima art are traced with the th names ot of Sir s John C d e and d Mrs A AP AP P the wives of southern generall generale slid Ind In the northern army General liar Dar Darlow low and ana were attended by their throughout the conflict even on when prisoners to the enemy Doth Both Mrs and Mrs Mra Darlow Barlow cared for the at the front and Mrs Irs Barlow died In the field from exposure tn in the hospitals during the Richmond campaign of 1864 1861 The first woman to claim right to membership In tb the 0 A It was Mrs S Brownell the wife or of a Rhode Island soldier lady Kady Brownell was the daughter ot of an English soldier and was brought up In the barracks At the be beginning ginning ot of the war In 1861 she he was aim al to lint hilI husbands company and when It went to the front she was Vas en enlisted listed as rotor color bearer remaining to In service until Ito he wu u wounded and charged nut But the most mOlt noted O 0 A n It I woman veteran I le Sarah Seelye See Ir lye who WI wee mustered Into the order at Houston Tex by Commander In Chit A 0 Mrs military service was wall a romance She Sheran ran inn away from homo home to escape leape an un unwelcome welcome suitor and to In the of ofa oft t a man enlisted In the Second Michigan a as Franklin Thompson After serving with honor two years ears she had bad reason to believe her secret hall had bean discovered and she disappeared ot Of course she leas rated aJI aas a deserter but congress upon InquIrIng Into the facts on cn record removed the staIn o of and granted an discharge and n a pension The thought ot of a woman In the army naturally na up the picture ot of the or Daughter of the mint a character known to poetry and the drama dram Very very few of this class elai really served servel In the war Many were given the title as n oomph mint and appeared at times on parade But Dut the copIed with their uniform and tactics the I lion of Mary Tobe Tebe nn an Al AI the ot of a German volun volunteer volunteer teer served with regiment and was wa decorated with the Ie Kearney for her at the battle ot of Fredericks Fredericksburg burr burg where she was wounded In the dual capacity of companion to tier her husband and nurse for tor the sick lick and wounded Belle Macomber R Ita 1 tilde followed the fortunes ot of the Sst and was formally tom oom Daughter ot of the RegIment with the rank nt major by Governor Yates lates Muse Mill Annie a through the war at with the Second and Fifth MIchigan and may be said to fo foland stand land all as the Ille American tY type e ot of the vi I Slue She rode rod on horseback dress dressed Id ed In habit and a mil milItary ml liars cap At she and her horse borst were wounded by th the came bullet Having fr free range rane over the AnnIe often directed the and more than once onet In a rallied them to t was ot of value She was a 11 woman ot of great cour courage age and r enDe of mind and led men In the hour of danger by sheer force ot of example The role of spy la Is one especially adapted to women In a cIvil war Sev crol nOted female spies served the north And the south and there I la no case on record where th they betrayed a 11 trust which they once accepted Major Pau Pauline Pauline line Cushman became famous through hr her dramatic debut and long lone service oe Early In n the war an actress In Louisville she Interpolated ted the toast Hero Heros to the Southern Confederacy and was sent nt across Ih the lines for tree ta son Using the conferred conferral by her welcome In the south she ehe gathered valuable Information for forthe the north and was given shen the honorary brevet of major majorIn In a similar liar may MIllS Ford a belle of Fairfax Va served the cause ot of the south The homE o of UH Miss Ford was time the headquarters of Federal and she sho betrayed their secrete secreta to the enemy orten In collusion with the redoubtable night rider In Kentucky and Tennessee Mrs John Mance serval the cause of ct the south lOuth She was a woman of nerve anti and darIng and at times wore it a mans man uniform and fought In the ranks rank Bh I believed to 10 have been Inspired by n a spirit of re revenge enge her husband having died In a 11 northern prison The murder ot of her husband by led Mra Jacob Stiles ot of Missouri to serve the north as guide and ep spy The famous Rums Ruffin family ot of Virginia sent to the field a heroine who fought In many campaigns In the ranks of the Fourth VIrginia Infantry She was wounded and captured of at Gettysburg but maintained her disguise to the end Mrs I L M lU Blaylock k In mans disguise served In the same Hmo company with her husband In the North Carolina To the tho women who bore themselves amid the tho perils u of the field fIld with true tru womanly courage and dignity nil all honor honorIs Is 18 due but not lees Is It due to those thole In the more humble but equally trying labors at the front Around the memory of this clues clOtS ot of heroines typified b by Mother and Dorothy Dix the veteran paints a halo haloot ot of rev reverence renee Above all others by the very ery nature ot of their devotion they bore the sacred attribute o of mother and sister amid the turmoil and hard hardships ships ot of war FRANCES HYDE u |
