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and became toiocb attached to each other’feome time daring last summer Lieutenant8 ” — wu? Appointed to a position ine the 21 at Michigan infantry, then render-s rousing in Ionia county. The thought of parting froai the gay lieutenant Nearly drove her mad, and she resolved - to share his dangers and, be near him.-— j No soonor j;faad she {resolved upon this ^ course ihnxr she proceeded to net I’ur-chasing main at lire bIh* visited Ionia, er»-1 listed iirCapt. Cavanagb's compan), 2Lstf regiment While in camp she managed a to keep her secret from all — not CVen the object of her attachment, who met her every day. vraa aware of her presence so near him. Annie left with hi-r regiment e for Kentucky, passed through all the dangers and temptations of camp life, endured e long marches and sleeping on the cold ground without a murmur. At last, the night before the battle of Pea Kidge. (or f Prairie Grove,) in which her regiment took part, her edjc was discovered by a member of her company ; but sbe enjoined »e-creev upon him, after relating her previons biulory.On the following dav she was under 6re, and from a letter she has in her pos-P feushioD, it appears she behaved with marked gallantry, and by her own hand shot a rebel capiain who wan in the art ot firing upon Lieut, W. But the fear of revealing her eex continually haunted her. Alter the battle she was sent outwith others to collect the wounded, andone of the firrt corpses found by her wax. the t-oldier who had discovered her sex.— Days ami weeks passed an. and she W-can»e a universal favorite with the svi-tiwnt, so much so that her colotul (Stephens) frequently detailed her as regimental clerk— n position that brought Iwr iii close contact wnh her lover, who at this time was major or adjutant of the regiment.•A few weeks subsequently she was out oq picket duty when she received a shot inJ the arm that disabled her, and notwithstanding the enot-fa of the surgeon, her wound conunnaily grew worse. She wjl* sent 10 the hospital'at Louisville, where she Ims been ever since until a few Weeks ago, when fhv was discharged by lue post surge on. as her arm was m.fl llr,j and rendered tist-i.-ss !„r Ini-, rjjje tinplorcd lu l l* T Ji'f 111 I t i 1/i r**l ttriv ( I,.,-
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Daily Milwaukee News
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Sun, May 24, 1863
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