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From the St. Louis Democrat.ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.WomanArmy.!iA voting woman was arrested by a policeman 1 ist Saturday, on Fourth street for wearing male attire. Some three months ! « to she was arrested on the same charge. Her appearance, manners, style of conversation and the account she gives of herself, place her above the ordinary class of women who affect the garb of the opposite sex. All who converse with her are itn-pressed with ihe eonvictioa that her story is true. In light grey pants, vest and coat, a' tl light felt hat. she looks like a sprightly boy of fourteen. She is of medium (wo-t man’s size, black and curling hair, large-I lustrous dark eves regular features, ruddy jand fresh looking, pnd in very generous I health Her narrative, received from herStan29 fir*hli(tirm• cohiletlei oe anoopahaanViOlJthi\o\beit) the calaboose, is a follows: jjaI was born in Michigan, near to andnorth of Kalamazoo City. My father wasHeir to a large landed estale in England, and had an abundance of money.with which i he traveled about for pleasure. I was taken from my birth-place when only a few mouths old. Mv mother died when I waswlt;mewcbl«I’lt;altmttoI ta ftkLiemtseven years old, then my father had the whole care of my two brothers arid me.— j We had a private tutor who traveled with us. Brothers were sent to college. When I was ele'ea father died. At fourteen I 1 was married to a member of a minstrel i troupe. He had some five ihonsund dol- ^ llaasin money, and with it went in partner-L ^ ship with his uncle,who lost his life and the! monev w hile crossing the Atlantic. Whenn J m • J ; _I had been married eighteen months my husband died, and I wns lett wholly the care of mv two brothers. The elder was clerk in a banking house, and the other whs still at college in Ohio. When the warO lbroke out my younger brother cauw home and they both enlisted. Firstthey consulted me about enlisting. I at last consented.M:lyeprerrm:toconaitced]yre^falconsidered tlmtthe country needed e*ery able-bodied man to aid in putting down the rebell'on. Their regiment went to Baltimore. ami afterwards 1 became uneasy and j ^ wanted to join them. My younger brother jgt was eager I should, and my elder brother | ^ reluctantly consented. Goingto Baltimore] i entered the hospital and was nurse to the 1 sick and wounded. There I frequently met mv two.brothers and was tolerably j contented; hut at length I received insults j and ungrateful return from some of the re covered, Same were kind-hearted andgrateful. 1 was determined to be with my brothers, yet 1 could not 'fcodura the continued insults, and so I aslrd my brothers’• * v ■ • ft •wlt;bainregiment in aorae capacity so as lo be near them. I proposed to act as Orderlv to the dt Major, who was our second cousin on my 81 father** side Mv brother Lirst CPremtoril? i
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Delphi Weekly Times
Delphi, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 19, 1863
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