Show american america hero heroines ine S by LOUISE al M COMSTOCK nannie hutchins tb i all brown and strong the men benoin hixom and brave the women who earned heroism in the winning of the west and strange it la Is to picture among tint that gallant company a little six year old girl arl with wide eyes and rolden golden curls yet nannie il Is still 11 favorite when old frontiersmen gather to swap yarns of the eighties and wrinkled wichita braves will still recount over a slow pipe the debt their tribe owes this little yellow head ed will white te girl mannle was a daughter of a teacher at the cheyenne Chei enne agency near the site rite of the present city of fl el reno keno okla in 1873 when site she was just turned sli six a smallpox epidemic of startling alace menace broke out and the red nien men to whom smallpox means certain death became terrified nannies bannies uncle john D miles agent at cheyenne sent to wichita two hundred miles away for vaccine and Inn with ft ath it nannie and tin ns as miny of the indians as lie he could supply then came frantic calls from neighboring agencies for vac cine to hilt halt the alie raging disease in indian territory outposts but the sup ply was gone and it would be two weeks before a freight wagon woud arrive with it 1 I 1 more then doctor 0 etor given of the wichita agency who had hurried 45 miles to cheyenne in ills vain quest for v vac a C cine looked 1001 oil at nannies bannies arm till all red and swollen with the recent injection from it lie could secure enough virus to vaccinate a groat great many of ills his own people could he take tal e nannie hack back with him mrs Il demurred she was a n widow and nannie was her baby finally however she consented and the doctor and the little girl with finlay rinley ross hoss an indian lighter fighter set out on their journey along the famous chisholm chesholm trail whore where in those days the nolte min man traveled in constant dan danger L r of indian attack and frightful dea death t h I 1 many any anxious hours later when they hid had gained wichita in safety the vaccinating begin began those safeguarded hi by the virus from nan riles arm in turn supplied virus for others and most of the and many of the klowas mow as were thus saved A year liter later when the indians of that region were staging their last desperate uprising against tile the whites chief let mow a and chief yellow bird and TO 10 wichita braves rode over to fort sill and volunteered their lees ices they wanted to fight they sold on the side of tile the little golden got len liend head who hid had saved them from tile the small pox pot epidemic mother crim mis BIRS TO cr calm I 1 in who died recently at the rt age e of ninety four years ears in new market va a the title of mother was a terra term of military tribute it was a title of honor earned at the battle of new market in may of 1804 when mrs brinit mothered as she nursed scores of wounded and dying boys members or of chrit famous bind ban of virginia mill lary institute cadets cabets whose gallant charge Is the high spot of this battle in the spring of 01 04 the super superior for numbers and greater resources of the north were beginning to tell against the south two years earlier stone wall jacksons s campaign in the shenandoah valley had successfully cut general mcclellan pHin off from aux troops tin and thwarted his plans now hoping for similar recoil results ts len con ml rl lee I 1 ee sent general barly up tip th the ale valley in spite of heavy odds I 1 birly a won n on victories rind and even threat piled washington before general fen tal shurldin de demented rented him film at Wine winchester heRter an nl Ill forced reed its ills letrent to the south it wis was in on one e of these v victories 1 th tint attile the V M I 1 end cabets cadets L played playe d their brilliant part the little company ranging from fourteen to nineteen years in age hid had been hurried up from ieving ton by a forced march of three flays to he be on hand in case of emergency they were a spirited band afire with patriotism eager for ac tion alon although it had been planned to h hold 0 1 d them in reserve the contri I 1 cpr henrlne ln g forces of the enemy tin an 1 t I 1 own insistence won them n place pince in I 1 the lie very front line there they held their position for several hours tin nn dor der heavy artillery fire and infantry attack and at the deel decisive sive moment mple made n spectacular charge to victory I 1 years later inter mrs prim deserf lied cd that flint charge 1 I siw saw the terrible shells ex right in front of HUP flop of cadets cabets as they down own shir leys lev s hill hil the deadly tire fire ent cut gaps in their line hut but they ringed closed up tip tin and without faltering they moved forward to victory and death the wo wounded inde I 1 were carried to the old rlee home in new market marl pt the clr inan knights of blythin orphanage there mrs crini tool took nursing comforting ing ine one of it her r strongest anem oi e anns of nf the flip devotion of the ca ipas for enel other she told how later flip faini famous lis sculptor of V na M 1 Is 8 me memorial a orfil virginin urn I 1 ins n her den d ca aried n won corn com rid into t ohp t 1 e haive and held illin him lying in ills q tir arms n i s mrs prim holds tile only of valor ever hy by tile virginia military institute 0 1032 VI tarn newspaper union |