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richest jewel that she can leave tu posterity.Eosslp Ahoai the Female Surgeon*jFteui tus EJitecad Etaalnsr. irrll 2G-1‘ Mrs. Dr. Mary E. Walker, tbs Yankee' surgeonesa (to coin a continuation word), at Castle Thunder, doss not like* Lei quarters at all, She wants to go home. She does not like the fare—it is not wholesome. She does not like the officers—they are too rebellion?. She does like the negroes—oh. the dear, black creatures! Sh6.spends her confine-meat, cot in reading medical works on sawbones and the treatment of eaiap-iteh, but devouring aU the nonsense and trash she gets, hold of with a negro character in them. Shs is very curious to know what the Eidimpud papers publish, and, like Mrs. Lincoln, anxious to know “what they have to say aboutus.”Her costume in the castle is ih6 same ia which she '.was received, and she will not substitute it for one more mors becoming her sax. . No, she will, hot; she would die first. This dress may be “bloomeror it may bs tbe.Jatest miscegenation style—^blua broadcloth short underskirt, trimmed with brass buttons;. Fankee uniform hat, with cord and tassel, and lt;:M. S.” on it; Surgeon’s green silk sash, worn over the left shoulder and across the left breast; fastening,on the left side, over tke short frock, a blue cloth mill tary overcoat and cape; upon her Jest, boots reaching to the bottom of her dress, hud forming a junction about midway bst^cea her ankle and thigh. Some . of this toggery is laid aside in the castle, and the female M. IX has hung up her cap as though the length of her stay were uncertain. An astounding circumstance in connection with her case has just been divulged by a correspondent in General Johnston's army writing from’Tuncel Bill, in the vicinity of the scene of her capture* He says—he says—yeS; sir—he says— he eays^she-was jjtling a man’s saddle, with one foot in each stirrup! Goodness gracious 1-Wine and Beer at Sanitary Fairs*
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Quincy Whig and Republican

Quincy, Illinois, US

Sat, May 21, 1864

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