| Show 01 1 douht a 0 4 1 Memorial Day krings brings to lo m mind in d many of the me gent gentler lerie sev tev who ho enlisted either by stealth or openly 11 on loth sides ats anat fought bravely ty shoulder der to 10 shoulder with men during the civil war X THE war now being fought over in eur europe pe women get In into mens uniforms i for ms anil and fight battles for instance there Is 0 o ono no 9 girl irl by the name of T tom om atzeff who made a wonderful record re cord in the russian army and many a woman like alko tier her has won similar tame yet there has been no war in which girls and tid women h have av e not won von this kind of celebrity the civil war was certainly no except exception ioli The there revere were many girls who f ought through the war on both tit the bunion union and confederate sides poe for example dr mary E walker received a commission as assistant surgeon and went through them the war with it but there were many women who enlisted and went through hard service without making doctor W walkers a iker ai reau for example thern there was frances P Z a fourteen year old 9 girl arl who eh enlisted listed with her lier brother the I 1 two tivo enlisted in the sixty fifth illinois and were mustered out after three thred months frances hook wearing male male clothes thes enlist enlisted ibid inthe in the nineteenth I 1 heri brother was killed at shiloh but the girl still wearing the clothes of a man fought through tigh the w war ar until chickamauga 1 johen when she was captured and shot through ille the leg in an attempt to escape while she was a prisoner in atlanta Jeffer jefferson sod davis Is ii said to have offered her a lieutenancy if she would join the confederate forces frances it is said replied to president davis offer that site 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 ih one of the regiments from ohio it a girl enlisted she was the sister of d a member of 0 the regiment while it at C camp amp jackson unit and camp den Denn denelson lson she handled bandied wm lumber er performed sentry duty and did other work of that thai sort if was waa two iwo weeks before she learned that I 1 there were two camp Dennl sons find and that her brother w was i n s at the other one straightway she made application for a transfer and failed she wanted to go to the pennsylvania camp dennison and sho wanted to to go badly the colonel of the regiment a good sort of fellow named morrow talked t to 0 the girl for some som e tithe time and anode her confers confess that she was flying under false colors without much ceremony she was dismissed and sent home just juat after the battle of chickamauga colonel burke of the tenth ohio exchanged a large number of prisoners with the confederates he not noticed leed a particularly clever and able young man amo among ng the prisoners he ae received a boy who gave the name of F rank frank henderson the colonel became interested enough to inquire who frank was and found out that he be was a girl he or rather she he had enlisted with elih her brother at the outbreak of the war they were orphans and were devoted to each other and she could liot hot bear the thought of being separated from mix him he had been tier her only com companion canlon from babyhood at the c of tier ber enlistment for foi three liontos in the regiment she was mr tiered ered out and next enlisted in n anor another er regiment from southern illinois chere her sex was not discovered she he was wounded two or three times discharged nod and sent home and enlisted again in the nineteenth nil lols she was finally captured and a bullet wound in her leg led to the disco discovery very of her sex there Is no braver story in all the annals of war than that of mary 0 ens she came from 6 a place called danville in pennsylvania her husband decided to enlist mary went with him she and he went avent to the front froni 16 together gether she had bad eloped with hini him nad now sli she ewas was ready to carry her hei decision to the limit man and wife they fought together until n bullet let put auf the man out of the running find and even then the woman fought on A A southern bullet struck tier her in the chest and she went to the hospi hospital tn but on the record were written the words A more faithful soldier fievez never shouldered a musket in brooklyn N ay Y a girl enlisted and fought to the finish through tho the war ar until she was mortally wounded in in hookers advance on lookout mountain fanny wilson enlisted in the awen ty fourth new jersey in order to fola IP ix g 01 pl low her sweetheart who was a mem her ber of the same regiment into the field he knew nothing of tier her action but sloe she saw him every day and came came near wag being iCi assigned signed to the same pesi mess tent with him at vicksburg miss WIT son was was shot so was vas the young anaa man and BlIss wilson who ho nursed him did not reveal her bee identity to him until just as the boy was was dying she stayed ahlm by ahlm closed his eyes and then went to cairo and got an engage engagements a chorus girl A little while later she afie enlisted d again still in male clothes as a member of the third illinois she was taken to the headquarters of the commanding officer it being suspected that she might be d a confederate spy but she nade made it clear that she was it a good loyal federl federal soldier in one of the pennsylvania regiments a bright little girl of twelve years enlisted as a drummer boy she gave the name of charles martin and she ehe appeared to be a clever little fellow and roade made herself useful to io the officers of the regiment in the capacity y of a clerk she was in five battles but always escaped without a bullet wound her superior officers never s suspected her sex tor for a moment it was not until she was taken to a hospital to in P philadelphia suffering from typhoid fever that her sex was discovered an officer of the seventeenth illinois by the name of reynolds had his wife made a major reynolds himself was a lieutenant isho was a scout and spy and made no effort to conceal her sex sex A girl giri n named amed i annie lillybridge of Detroit became betrothed toa to a lieutenant ln inthe t fie twenty first michigan and decided to put on soldiers cloth clothes es and perv serve e with him until the end of the war site she enlisted in the same meef without his knowledge andrare and carefully hidar hid her identity she even went so far as to enlist in a different corn coni pany from his one of her comrades after several months became aware of the secret secretor of her sex and when he was killed in battle the girl found his hotly body in the field she was finally F disabled by a sli otIn the arm and her sex being discovered she was sent home major pauline cushman was one of the cleverest servants the union army had throughout the war site she was tin an fic actress tress who ho lived in cleveland and was employed its as an officer of the union army As scout spy and soldier the girl major made a reputation second to none in the northern army pauline cushman has left a reputation only second to that of belle lloyd to whom stonewall jackson wrote that she had saved ilia his army mary Siez gle the wife of a soldier in the forty fourth new york en aisted with him and fought in the battle battie of gettysburg she served for a while as aa a nurse but afterward put on male clothes and did her share in actual lighting fighting I 1 one little heroine of the war had the lionor honor of being complimented in general orders she was a fifteen year old girl named schwartz living in a farmhouse about twelve miles from jefferson city mb aro on the night of august C 1863 a party of bush whackers whickers wh ackers who had heard that it wits was a rendezvous of union men attacked it there were four men in the house one being the childs father they all lied an and d left her alone to confront the guerrillas the little girl intrepidly opened the door with a revolver in her ba hand ind which velch the men had bad abandoned in their flight and said come on if you lantto wan tto some of you will fall fali ori will the bushwhackers bushwhack ers told tier her that if she did not leave the doorway they would kill her the first one who takes a step toward this door dies adles was the girls gills response and the marauders left new york times io in 7 ea n A P ja j vr IX a no A 0 ja J |
