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Exploit! on the Teoted FI#W of Mrs.Konnfr, alias Ltnaffnant Horry Bn-forJ-Her ftnectta mm m New Mexican Miner.[From the Mobile Register.]Saturday Mrs. E. H. Bonner, better known throughout the South as Lieutenant HarryT. Buford, arrived in this city from New Orleans, en route to New Yorfc This distinguished lady has, perhaps, gone through more hardships and done more for the Confederate States during the ‘‘iaie unpleasant-ness’* than anv woman within the borders ofrthe section so designated. Like all ourstgmSouthern women, Mrs. Bonner was filled with that unprecedented love of country and patriotism, so beautifully exemplified by the women of the South during the war. and, unwilling to see those whom she held most dear march to the front, she made preparations, notwithstanding her sex, to participate actively in the strife. During the month of June, 1361, 9he left New Orleans, in the full un uniform of a recruiting officer, and went direct to Arkansas, where she 30on succeeded in raising a company of veterans. As first lieutenant, under Captain Weatherford, she left Arkansas with the company and went to Key West Here shewas reluctantly compelled to leave the com-WKmaud which she had organized, and to which she became so much attached, on the ground of incompetency, as alleged by the commander of that post Determined to allow no impediment to make her swerve from the line of duty marked out by herself, she at once proceeded to Virginia, and joined Drew’s battalion of New Orleans the day previous to the first battle of Manassas, and participated m that memorable struggle. A short time after this she joined the Eighth Louisiana, and for the first time her sex was questioned, and she was arrested and ordered to assume female attire. Among hundreds of amusing adventures perhaps the best with which she was connected took place during the time of her imprisonment after the arrest A committeeof ladies waited upon her by order of the commander, for the purpose of settling the vexed question, but after seeing the dashinglooking young officer thej^ concluded not toperform their mission. She was taken before the Mayor, released, allowed to retain her uniform, and at once commissioned to perform any services for the Confederacy which she might be called upon to perform. As her sex had been questioned, it not known,
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Indianapolis News
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 02, 1874
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