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girl’s nerve, and himself saw to the arrangements for shipping h*r to her people.She did not proceed to her home, but went to Bowling Green, where she enlisted in the Eighth Michigan as regimental bugler. She was a first rate horsewoman, and bravely endured the hardships incident to the life of a soldier. She gained some reputation as a scout, having made several, remarkable expeditions which, were ..attended with signal success. - She was a tall girl of good figure, auburn hair and blue eyes. When her sex was discovered for the second time and she was mustered out, she took it good-naturedly, and went to the home of her parents. This young woman stated that she had discovered a good many women in the army, and that she was intimately acquainted with a young woman who held a lieutenants commission. She had, she said/assisted in burying three female soldiers at different times. whose sex was unknown toany but herself.• • •Mrs. Cushman’s Career As a Spy.The history of Major Cushman, the federal scout and spy, is familiar to students of the civil war. Miss Cushman resided in Cleveland, O., and upon going to Louisville to take part in a theatrical entertainment, she was arrested as a Southern spy by the federal authorities. She proved her loyalty by offering to enter the secret service of the Union army. Her services were accepted and her achievements are a matter of history. She penetrated the Southern lines time and again in the disguise of a confederate soldier, and her identity was never discovered,A girl named Annie Lilly bridge of Detroit^ became betrothed to a lieutenant in the Twenty-first Michigan, and determined to share in the fortunes of was with him without his knowledge.She enlisted in the same regiment, but in another company, and carefully, preserved the secret of her identity. ~~ One of her comrades, after several months of hard service alongside the girl in Kentucky, became aware of the secret j ea of her sex. but promised to hold his I trai peace.about it, and when he was killed’ in battle the girl found the body on the field. She was finally disabled by a shot in the arm and her sex being discovered she was sent to her home.Dill CDC AO MnMCV MAI/'CDO
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Davenport Daily Republican
Davenport, Iowa, US
Sun, Mar 31, 1901
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