. Women of the war; their heroism and self-sacrifice . r to themen of Proctors battery on that hot and bloody afternoonin July, when a ball crushed in the skull of her husband,just as he was ramming a charge into his field piece, andhe fell at her feet a bloody corpse. Lie there, my darling,till I avenge your death ! exclaimed Molly, and seizing therammer, she went on with the work which death had cutshort, while the men cheered her all along the line. Allthrough that afternoon, till night covered the landscapeand closed the battle, Molly stood by her gun, and madegood her husbands place, swab
. Women of the war; their heroism and self-sacrifice . r to themen of Proctors battery on that hot and bloody afternoonin July, when a ball crushed in the skull of her husband,just as he was ramming a charge into his field piece, andhe fell at her feet a bloody corpse. Lie there, my darling,till I avenge your death ! exclaimed Molly, and seizing therammer, she went on with the work which death had cutshort, while the men cheered her all along the line. Allthrough that afternoon, till night covered the landscapeand closed the battle, Molly stood by her gun, and madegood her husbands place, swabbing the piece, and forcinghome the successive charges with the vigor and coolness ofthe bravest soldier. The next morning she was presentedto General Wayne, all soiled and bloody as she had fought;and Washington gave her a commission as sergeant, and byhis recommendation her name was placed on the list of half-pay officers for life. The annals of our great war for the Union are not want-ing in similar instances where the wife of the soldier has (54). I N ARMY COSTUME. , [r.„..~ .<■./•., THE NEWYORTTPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOft, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUKDATIOWS. KADY BROAVNELL. 55 gone with her husband, experienced all the hardships of thecamp, stood in the line with sword at her side, carried thecolors into the thickest of the fight, and then, when thebloody work was over, devoted herself, with the delicatetenderness of her sex, to mitigating the horrors of thebattle-field. Such was the brave young wife whose name stands at thehead of our sketch; and such were her courage, her bearing,and her services on the plains of Manassas and at the battleof Newbern. Her father was a Scotchman, and a soldierin the British army. He was stationed far away on theAfrican coast, in Caflfraria ; and there, in the year 1842, in theregimental barracks, and surrounded by the rude but kindD\d soldiers, her fathers companions in arms, little Kadywas born. Accustomed to arms and soldiers from infa
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