THE GIRL'S SOLDIER LIFE.
i Romantic Military Career of a. Phil
ilrlphla Lady.
In January, 1803, Eilwnnl L. Pierce,
of Massachusetts, was sent by Secretary
Cam to Port Royal, S. C, to inquire
totto the condition of the negroes on the
8ea Island cotton plantation, and to re
port oo the feasibility of opening schools
at that place for the benefit of the in
habitants. As the masters had abandoned these
plantations and fled into the interior,
Itr. Pierce returned to Port Royal with
large company of young men and a
few women to begin his experiment. Of
the women there were Miss Susan
Walker, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Don
slaon, of Washington. Among those
who offered to go were two ntitried v6l
qntocra who were bo ycmtWul that -Mr.
Pierce deoHuel to accept! their servient!.
One of them retorned to her home. The
other would not be denied, and her pa
triotic devotion was such she finally
nreroame the objections of Mr. Pierce.
She pleaded for the right to serve her
country in this manner, promising to
supplement by her strength and activity
the waning physical endurance of her
superiors in age. Soon all of the ladies
were installed in the home at the head
quarters of Mr. Pierce, on Pope's plan
tation, St. Helena Island. Under the
same jurisdiction was also the Eustace
plantation of Lady's Island.
On both plantations wero (500 field
hands, with their families, needing ewry
kind of care which intelligence ""nnd
humanity could bestow. They were ac
customed to work only under the com
pulsion of slavery. It was difficult to
believe in the direction of white persons.
The first thing to be done was to per
suade them to work for a just pecuniary
reward. When they found that Massa
Lin cum meant freedom and gold dolbirs
besides, goodly crops were soon in the
ground and cheerful obedience was ren
dered. Schools were established, the younger
pupils studying by day and the older by
night, and the reign of order and pros
perity had begun. The old ladies were
soon coihpelk'd to return north. The
young men were distributed in various
duties, and on the young devotee, who
was Miss Nellie Winsor, of Boston, aged
twenty-one, fell the sole direction of the
500 field hands. She appointed them their
daily tasks every morning. She was
their paymaster when their work was
done, and in addition, sho was their
teacher, minister, nurse and physician
aU in one.
The duties of teaching were speedily
shared by Mis3 Laura Towne, of Phila
delphia; by Miss Ellen Murray and by
several others, but the young girl who
pleaded for the right to serve her conn
try fulfilled every promise made to Mr.
Pierce by the full surrender of her
strength and activity. She began by
determining to finish each day's duty be
fore she closed her eyes in sleep. She
soon found that her multiplied offices
brought ever developing duties, and
that these never could be finished. Sleep
she must for the coming day and sleep
sbftdid, and thus preserved her youthful
vigor.
A pressing necessity was now revealed.
A picket guard was offered, but for pru
dential reasons Miss Winsor strongly ob
jected. She preferred to rely on her
vwn 600 field hands, with whom the
most amicable relations had already been
established. She therefore selected from
them 100 able bodied men, drilled them
daily in the manual of arms and estab
lished her guard, which did good service
Cor over a year.
During this period Miss Winsor held a
captain's commission and drew the pay
of a captain. She was officially recog
nized by the United States government
Her duties as captain occupied but one
hour daily, and, in fact, constituted but
.small portion of her labors. It is, how
ever, possible that these duties . proved
her as competent to deposit a vote as
any one of those 500 men whom she di
rected in the labor of raising cotton or
the 100 whom she drilled in the manual
of arms.
When the necessity of protecting the
plantation no longer existed, Miss Win
art company entered Colonel Higgin
ton's First South Carolina regiment with
the advantage of a year's drill in mili
tary tactics. ,
After the close of the war Miss Win
r married and became Mrs. J. N.
Gushing. She went to Bunnah as a mis
sionary, and remained in that service
fourteen years. Philadelphia Press.
Devil Dick.
Devil Dick was a sergeant in his com
pany (D, Fourth Kentucky). The first
lieutenant was u small man and not very
dtrong. While encamped at Dalton the
first lieutenant was in command, the
taptain being off on furlough. Dick was
in extra good humor one day, and for
the lack of anything better to do pro
aured a wheelbarrow and caught the
lieutenant, and by force thrust him into
jhe barrow and wheeled him swiftly
iown tho color lino. The lieutenant was
shocked ami outraged to such a degree
hat Dick was put iu tho guard house
nd reduced to tho ranks. He was
languishing under guard when his cap
lain returned two week later, and it
waa with great difficulty that ho got him
relieved and restored to rank. Es
hange. Ki. Idler. Itt-utt
Soldier, rest, thy wurfura o'er,
bleui tliu nlee;i Unit known not breaklu;;;
Druititi of l Lltloiii.'lrlx no more,
Uays of d;lni;er, nliclilsuf waking.
In our isle's euelianu.-l Lull,
Hands imsuim tliy eounh uro strewing,
, Fairy strains of music full,
fcvery serine In slumber dunluc.
Soldier, I'witl tliy warfare o'er,
Kitain of Ituliting fields no mora,
Kluep luo Bleep tuut knows not lirbaklDB,
iUttu of toil, nor nluht of waklntf,
No rudo sound shall reach thine ear.
Armor's clang, or war steed champing,
Tramp nor pibroch summon here
Mustering clau or squadron tramping.
Yet llio UiSrt shrill fife may come
At Uio4aybre.uk from the fallow,
And tho bittern sound blu drum,
Hoomini; from the sudiry shallow.
Rnder sounds shall none .be near,
Guards uor wurdurs chiffleno here.
Here's no war steed's neigh and champing,
HUioutimi cIhuk, or squadrons stamping.
bcott s "Lady of the Lako."
An Old Soldier.
Among the names of thorn who havt
been decorated with the medal of honor
is that of Sergeant James Fegan, who
for thirty-five yean was a soldier in the
United States army. His record shows
that he enlisted in 1851, re-enlisted sev
eral times, participated in thirty battles,
and was wounded five or mx times.
Army regulations ordain that the funeral
escort of a sergeant shall consist of six
teen privates, commanded by a sergeant,
and accompanied by the non-commissioned
officers of the company wearing
side arms only.
When Sergwtnt Fegan died at Fort
Shaw, Mon., the celonel ordered out the
wholo garrison to follow the remains of
a man whose years of faithful service
and brave deeds were thought worthy of
extraordinary honor.
Fegan was an Irishman who loved the
service, and delighted to participate in
its duties and dangers. One day in 1807,
when his regiment was at Fort Dodge,
on the banks of the Arkansas, Fegan
called at the alxxle of his lieutenant,
accompanied by his wife and son.
He called to put 3,800 in the lieuten
ant's hand3 to keep for him. Standing
erect, 6 feet 2 inches in height, he put
his left hand on the boy's head, saluted
with his right hand and said:
"Liftinint! the proudest feather in his
father's cap it will lw when he sees this
lad iddneated like an officer and a gin
tlcman. An we've got the money to do
it, too haven't we, onld woman? Dhrop
a curtsy, woman! Right hand salute,
James, to tho liftinint!"
When tho son grew up he enlisted in
the father's regimeut. He was promoted
to be first sergeant of the company, ami
thus there was presented the singular
spectaclo of father and son serving as
sergeants in the same regiment.
Fegan senior was respectful and sol
dierly in his demeanor to officers, who
wero to him of the "quality," and he ex
acted similar respect to himself when on
duty.
One night at tho guard house, he be
ing the sergeant of the guard, was ad
dressed by a recruit as "Jim."
Whack! and the raw recruit was
sprawling.
"Jim, is it?" roared tho irate sergeant
"Whin I'm on dliuty it's 'Sergeant Fay
gun' ye'll call me. Whin I'm off dhuty,
thin, an' not till thin, I'm Jim. D'ye
mind it? D'ye mind it?' O. A. R. Ga
zette, A Woman's Answer.
"Why do I belong to the Woman's
Relief corps?"
"Well my father was a soldier a
strong, largo man, with an iron consti
tution, we thought, when he went into
the army. When he came home he was
thin and gaunt, with lines of pain on his
face and streaks of gray in his dark hair.
Uncomplainingly ho suffered a few years
and died. Au uncle, a plain, kind and
generous man, left his little comfortable
home among the northern pines followed
soon by his son, the eldest of the family,
but scarce sixteen tall, straight as an
arrow and graceful as the pine trees he
had played beneath.
"The father, after lying in the hospital
for months, was brought home, and,
though still alive, has never seen one day
free from pain, is bowed and bent, a
helpless cripple from rheumatism. Yet
he was paid in full for his services, and
has never secured one cent of a pension,
because some paper is wanting. The son
died in the hospital of fever.
"Another the dearest and best cousin
of all fresh from college, with the
promise of a bright career in life, entered
the ranks, was shot through the heart,
and his dead body brought home and
buried in the old cemetery near by.
"A playmate I had grown up with
from infancy, who seemed like a brother,
lost a leg, and now hobbles around on
crutches.
"The man I married was a soldier too,
and today suffers untold agonies of pain
from exposure to wet and cold while
bravely defending his country.
"These, my friends, are some of my
reasons for joining the Woman's Relief
corps, hoping in a quiet way with these
loyal women to relieve some suffering
widow or orphan, or at least to offer one
word of sympathy. And I never meet
an old soldier, poor, dirty and ragged
though he be, without thoughts filling
my mind of the suffering and privations
he heroically endured while serving his
country, and I feel like grasping his
hand in token of the friendship and r&
spect I feel for him."
Thoy Dullied Too Long.
One day a detachment of General
Basil Duke's troops was moving through
the northern purt of Kentucky. Dick
Wintersmith's son was in the band and
its leader. Tho guerrillas were worn
out and hunted down. Their horses
were nearly foundered. Tho ineu were
dirty and ragged. They halted for rest
near a seminary for young ladies, all
sympathizers with tho Confederacy. Out
came the young ladies when they smv
the gray coats. Thoy brought out food,
drink and annfnls of ilower3. They
hung flowers around the nocks of the
hunted mon, uud Bang in a musical
choruH, "Oil, you darling Confederates,
A straggling Confederate, fat, greasy
nnd ragged, came up Hugging a jaded
hack ulong, and swearing because ho
could rot keep up with his associates.
Ho was just in time to hear the invoca
tion of tho young ladies, nnd yelled out,
"Yes, you darling, sweet Confederates,
the Yanks are coming!" At this there
was a bolt. Tho laggard pounded on be
hind, Buying, "Oil, you sweet darlings, 1
hope the Yanks will get you!"
The Fedenils were indeed right at his
heels, and tho flying Confederates nliead
wheeled in their saddles, expecting to
witness tho capture of tho slow rider.
Suddenly the tired horse stumbled and
fell and threw the fat rider over into a
ditch, where ho escaped notice, while a
detachment of Federal troops headed off
the main band and captured every one.
Only the laggard escaped, and tho pris
oners never heard tho last of "Oh, you
sweet, darling CVmfoderatea." Southern
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