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the*nfi-1 the most picturesque figure in Mem-of} orial day parades. She wore a wom-ing j an/s uniform of blue flannel, full short skirts and boots. Mrs. Brownell enlisted with her husband. Robert S. Brownell, in the Mechanic’s Riffles of -Providence. R. I. When it was mustered into the Rhode Island regiment of Zouaves she donned a uniform and went along.Wounded a I the first battle of Bull Run she received a med.il for gallantry m action a? the fall of Newbera and was mustered out in 1SG4 and granted a special pension by act cif congress. Mrs. Tlrownn was an employe of the New York Park department for many years and a for a time was custodian of the Jumet Mansion.Of this woman warrior of America General Burnside wrote: Mrs. Brownell was with my command during the campaign in North Carolina, and by her services on the battlefield of Newbern and *in the hospital located there, saved many officers and soldiers from death.”Every American school boy is familiar with the story of the revolutionary heroine, Molly Pitcher, a red-haired, freckle-faced young irishwoman, who while bringing water to her husband, a gunner on the battlefield of Monmouth, saw him fall and heard the commander order the piece to be removed from the field. Dropping her water pall. Molly Pitcher hastened to the cannon, seized the rammer and with skill and courage, tuok her husband’s place. The soldiers named her Captain Molly, and on the day after the battle she was presented to Washington and received a .sergeant’s commission with half pay through life.Many women beside Kady Brownell served through the civil war. Enlisting- as men. their sex remained undiscovered by officers and men. Paul-
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 03, 1917
Page 8
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