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puny in a charge, she was twice wounded, and carried from the field/ After the retreat to Corinth she was taken to New Orleans for surgical treatment, and when the city fell into the federal hands she was'among those taken prisoner. : After a confinement of several months she was paroled and soon, after exchanged. ..Proceeding at once to Richmond, the disguised female soldier was commission-, eel first lieu ten uni in the adjutant general’s department, nud • ordered ‘to report to Geo. Marcus J. Wright, commanding the district of Atlanta. Upon reporting she .was assigned to duty with the provost marshal, as chief of detectives and military conductor.— Serving for several months in this ea-paeityCahe met Maj. DeCamp, of the 3d Arkansas cavalry, to whom she was engaged to be znanicd previous fO the war. The ceremony was then performed at Atlanta, and from the dashing lieutenant Boaeh she^ wns transformed to the sober Mrs. Map DeGamp. From this time her services ceased as an: officer in the field and she was engaged in secret service—sometimes in the confederacy, again in Englaud* and then in Canada, In 1864 she spent several months traveling iu.the United States, and even went as far as the Sioiii country in Minnesota. Her husband, who was taken.prisoner in the fall of 1863, while serving .with his regiment in Georgia, was carried to New York. . Af-ttr n long and arduous seige alio at length succeeded in.get.tiug him purpled in Jamtnry, I860, but* ho only lived eight days after his release from prison. Subsequent to the death of her husband (in January, .1S65J .’.alie proceeded to. Columbus, O., to wateli over the .interests of’the confederate prisoners eon fined at Cump Chase. :; Alter the AuMcCollapso of tho coii-fetleracy, Mrs. I)e Ciiinp .remained in the norlli until last January, when she returned to her home inTjmmiana; but remaining tliere. only a few1, days, she proeeded to Memphis and purchased a stock of goods-whith, were shipped on the ill-fated steamer Miami, which..was-' blown up on the Arkansas in February. She was one of the two ladies who were saved, hut with-the sacrifice of all heir
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Semi Weekly Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Mar 17, 1866
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