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Show LAST OF CIVIL WAR ARMY NURSife DIES MOSCOW. Idaho, April 19. Mrs Alwilda Pauon Smith Sj years ol" age, who died yesterday, was thf last of i what Is said to have been tho rogu- I larly enlisted nurses with the I nion! forces in the Civil war. The story of her enlistment, made' so she couUl be with her wounded husband, is one of ilevolion. In April 1S62, her husband. Ldndol Smith, Seventy-third Indiana regiment. WHS wounded and complications rest) re-st) lied in pneumonia In an effort .o reach the bedside Mrs. Smith appealed to Levi P, Morton, war time governor of Indiana, for a permit to enter the Union territory, but the regulations were so strict that only Union sol iliers were allowed t enier and leave the territory In which her husband was quartered. .Mrs Smith 1 1 1 led out enlistment pa-I pa-I ptrs and shortly after hei arrival a( the front line was assigned as matron of ilie Gallatin. Tt-nn , hospital, a po Eition which sh retained until Unclose Un-close of the war. Mr. Smith was the builder of the llrst administration nuildinn at the University of Idaho, in lhX Mrs. Smith was fira! pr'dent of the Ida ho state Women's Relief corps, a char ter members in the Rebekah lodge an.l president of the first Idaho Ri bekah assembh m Idaho. Funeral services were held here Fnd.v |