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•nigger or no nigger/ especially the “last man.” If you have n good musket m-uked *U. S.' send it down, and I am ready to hear it in defense of tlio Union. 1 am no foreigner, and claim nil the papers that entitle me to ‘go in.'WiMiAnn Davis, 'A Yflong Lady Eager to tea Soldier.A few days ago, the hospital matron at Benton Bari ticks, St.-Logis .detected the loi in of a young lady in the habiliments of a young nun, the wearer of. which was an applicant for enlistment. lt;She was sent to department Provost Marshal, where she declined to make any statement as to her name history, etc. At length, however, .she concluded to tell.her story. Her proper name was Lissuic Cook, aiul her home lay in Ap-aiioos county, lown. Her father was ini the First Missouri State Militia, and killed ; in Askiimish at Walnut Creek, Linn county Missouri, on the tenth of August. Her brother is a sergeant in the'Filth Kansas. A desire to reach him, and a disgust at the monotony of her woman’s life,'with a wish to serve her country, led her to determine to assume mail attire and volunteer as o soldier. She Jeft^homc a few weeks ago, and went to Keokuk, where she worked as a house servant for a Mr’Huntaickcr, till she had earned .money enougV to* bny a suit of boys, clothes. She bought and donned them’ and at once started for St, I*ouis. In the morning she took flhe cars for Benton Barracks, and was there proposing to. enlist when detected as 'stated. The young
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The Howard Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 04, 1864
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