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a-nsdn-n-CQ-Mlss I)r. Walter.Oar readers will no doubt recollect tlao appearance here, some months since, of Mies Dr. Mary E. Walker, a lady who had spent much of her time in ministering to the want* of oar soldiers in the hospitals at Washington, and who was then on her way west. The only peculiarity about the lady was her style of dress, which might bo called « military Bloomer.*’ She was captured recently In the vicinity of Tunnel Hill, and is now apnsoner in Richmond, whero ahe has caused somosen-sat.on. The Richmond Exammer says of her: i “Miss Dr. Mary E-Walker, tho Yankee ■I- Isnreeonesa at Castle Thunder, does not like her quarters at all. She wants to go home Sho does not liko tho fore—it ia not wnolo some. She does not like the officers—they are too rebellious. She does like the negroes —oh. the dear, black creatures I She spends her confinement, not In reading medical works on saw-bones and tho treatment of camp-itcb, but devouring ail the novel nonsenso and trash she can get hold of with a negro character In thorn. Her costumo in the castle is tho same in which she was received, and she will not substitute it for oDe more becoming her sex. No, she will not; she would die first. This dress may be * Bloomer, or it may’be the latest miscegenation style. Some of this toggery is laid wide in the castls, and the female M. D. has hang up her cap as ^though the length of her stay were uncertain.rekill-jo.*t-P6an bo f aCO*oilinas,lullredw
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Pittsburgh Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, May 10, 1864
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