Show 1 mf JY A t ii I 1 I 1 NEARLY A ALL AL L taft bood ONES 41 Y I 1 r jr V stav 1 AT homai H 0 M S T I 1 Ti Asja A tor Is ty is X no A at fiction i 7 n tor the belt The Ther raAr aAre 11 Except lona mour moul a pitcher greatly the fake i 1 I 1 I 1 As agthe 1 th spec spectacle bacle of war necomes to i nation much of the pic J dureso and sentiment alsoc assoc associated with ilk it adli dies es out and hard bard practical common sense takes taked their place the want that is provided for making no claim on the sympathy oi of the noncom non com balant already the question of volunteer nursing has been disposed of and the woman whose heart hear t goes out to the soldier whither sick or well but especially when he Is id well must content herself by home in on cu forced inactivity vity for liven ven the making of bandages and scraping of lint have been established in a comme commercial way hy by the mustard plaster warehouse ware boim an edict has also gone forth from army headquarters to the effect that women will not be sent to the seat dfwar of war as nurses and it is a wise measure for there should be found in the ranks of the unemployed male assistants lb to 0 enforce the orders of the trained doctor who can do everything for the s sick ick and wounded that a woman can do to tell the truth the front Is no place for women and few good ones ever go there frantic pictures of annie etheridge riding a dashing cavalry horse and waving a nag are found among pictorial histories of the war but as a tact f a ct annie nett neither her carried a flag nor a musket although she had a pair of army revolvers in her holsters and would have used them too had she needed their help she did ride a cavalry horse horae and dressed in the uniform of a daughter of 0 the regiment military cap and jacket with short blue shirt her presence was so refining that she was named the angel of the regiment and gentle annie by the soldiers As AB a fitting sequence to her army service annie was given a permanent position in the government departments at washington where her career closed amid the monotonous avocations of peace another and very different character was that daughter of the regiment molly pitcher who was famous for her bravery in the days of the colonial wars and whose grave on the grounds of the private estate of a wealthy americans summer home on the hudson is known to to s a f few ew interested individuals there was no sham and hypocrisy about her h she went to the front for business and not for sentimental adventure and a chance to get ft a soldier husband near to the grave and though more than a hundred years have passed her name shines brightly in his torys pages molly pitcher was the a soldier and she attached herself to the command in which he served as gunner size earned the name of pitcher from fro her occupation that carrying of water to 10 the soldiers over whom she exercised the influence of a 0 martinet martinet she wore a semi regimental dress consisting of a blue skirt a red coat and a cocked hat she rated the men for coward ice and if their accoutrements were not in order they feared capt molly more than they did ciela own offices officers she manned a gun at the capture of fort montgomery and fort clinton when word was received that the res hessians were advancing rapidly and anda a panic would have ensued but molly mon y mounted the ramparts and shouted come on hessians or redcoats and I 1 well give ye a supper of bullets that will fix ye for life when urged to run and save jerown her own life she retorted I 1 divil a will I 1 run till tha guns fired and she touched off the last cannon ahu aaa was discharged in fort clinton while the enemy was pouring over the ramparts i I 1 1 gen washington was attracted toward molly at monmouth where her husband ws was lined and she asked for his place as gunner where she hold held the position for far a whole day loading and firing her husbands dead body lashed cannon beside her when molly mon 6 retired from fr the army at the close of the war ar she was put on an the pay ron roll tor for life r being made a captain by brevet she spent the yest of her days at west point laoj among whose ar chives a la Is recorded ser her money 3 v M P ie ht it to her h er regu july lafrom washington tor for she w was as considered ed in fi iaia exactly i ui the same light as a solda soldier ir brij drawing g a pension before she was made a captain she had been badu distinguished dugied by gen greene gree no for hl ner er bix bravery y by a urge sergeants anVa coals sion aion which was presented to tier her in per I 1 by washington i V himi himself elf while she 0 asked aifili excuse her appearance APP ear dirt and 1 bi blood 01 ok ys I 1 ak I 1 9 h j of I 1 them the egl 11 i r T ing al ambirg the aa 9 it we 6 ap 1 1 am d 2 Q on AA M A L tf ia i T nt evv U s tl t I 1 f 1 t s |