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as the “bone and sinew” of the country.The Cairo2fows of the 15th, relatesthata young woman, about nineteen years of age, arrived at Cairo several days ago with the 14th Iowa dressed in soldiers’ uniform, and serving Capt. Crane of Company H in the capacity of servant. She deported herself as a male, attended theatre, and answered as promptly to the sobriquet of Charley as if it w'ere really her name. On Saturday she attended the theatre, took a seat among her fellow soldiers, but her disguise could not conceal her sex from the searching eye of the Provost Marshal, and straightway he caused her to be arrested. Capt. Crane saved her from incarceration in the guard house, by promising that she should adopt proper apparel and be herself again. The secret leaked out, and during Sunday the boys in camp became deeply interested. Theyfathered about the Captain’s quarters to see her. he Colonel receiving an intimation of the affair, dispatched his adjutant to push suitable inquiries. The woman discovering that the secret was out, that her presence in 6uch a garb was the theme of a thousand tongues, took up the Captain's revolver, stepped from his room, and placed the muzzle to her heart, tired, and fell a corpse upon the open parade ground, without aSoan or an exclamation. Nothing could be *med of her name, family, or the motives which influenced her in following Captain Crane to the war.
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Burlington Weekly Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa, US
Sat, May 02, 1863
Page 13
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