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ner i(I11 i mr'Hvtj ihuiI remained, with few interruptions or diftieul tie?, as Orderly for the Major, but. by and by, he was taken sick, I took the Louisiana fever, had the erysipelas, and was very homesick This was last- January. The Major cot furlough- for us. I accompanied him to Northern Illinois, his h«me, and then went to Michigan. On the way, m31 health became good again I resumed female dress when I cams to the place where I had lived with uiy husband — Pleasant Valley near Detroit. Staid about four week*, then started out again and took citizen’s (male) dress Meanwhile the Major had resigned.I had resolved to join my brother again at New Orleans He was my only hope am] stay in the world I travelled by rail to Cairo, and thence to Memphis on the steamboat Welle Memphis; and from Memphis, on another boat, to Lake Providence. I had heard of the illness of a college unite of my de-nl brother, and found him (the college friend) in the hospital at Lake Provi deuce He was also our second cousin on my niniher’sside I went to the hospital and stayed two weeks, until he died. Then I took a boat to go to Cairo in order to go to New York, and thence bv ship to New Orleans; but on the way, not getting my trunk checked. 1 lost it with $1(10 in gold, some greenbacks, a revolver that cost $30, and an ivory hmd’e stiletto. The trunk was too heavy for me to carry to the state room, ihe porter neglected to do it, and the next morn iug it was missing- Then I h id left only money enough to rake me to St. Louis, where I conclu ded I must go and try to get work. 1 got. here about the 29th of March or 1st of April, and went first to the Taylor House, but stayed only a short time, when 1 got work at the Everett House ns'(lining room boy. I was all the time anxious and nearly distracted about my only remaining brother, from whom I could hear nothing; and, alter writing to him in vain, I wrote home and received a letter that he had died ol fever So I was left all alone . At the Everett/House, I succeeded as a waiter, though 1 had never done any housework; and my sex was not discovered, though, 1 had to .sleep with a boy. I 'could not knead bread, but I could biake pastry, having learned it as a pastime. I had to be among the boys as one of (hem, and they urged me to go to the Bowery mid Varieties, till at List I consented, and one night went with Jimmy and another boy to the Bowery. We .were followed by two fellows of the house, who accused us both of; being girls, which I denied; but Jimmy said hp was one. One of them went off with him, and the other staid with me and;-1 could not get rid of him, but
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Indianapolis Indiana State Sentinel
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Mon, Sep 14, 1863
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