. The town of Wayland in the civil war of 1861-1865, as represented in the army and navy of the American union .. . orus, and have now voluntarily built three large forts and aboutforty hospital-buildings. Very few try to escape. They do notseem to have the kind feelings towards each other that our menmanifest. Nearly half of them cannot write their names. One prisoner demands special notice. A person of slenderform and officer-like demeanor, a lieutenant of a Virginia bat-tery, was kept for several weeks before it was discovered that un-derneath the male garb was a female form. She had been i
. The town of Wayland in the civil war of 1861-1865, as represented in the army and navy of the American union .. . orus, and have now voluntarily built three large forts and aboutforty hospital-buildings. Very few try to escape. They do notseem to have the kind feelings towards each other that our menmanifest. Nearly half of them cannot write their names. One prisoner demands special notice. A person of slenderform and officer-like demeanor, a lieutenant of a Virginia bat-tery, was kept for several weeks before it was discovered that un-derneath the male garb was a female form. She had been inthe military service of the rebels for four years. She belongedto one of the most respectable families, and apparently frompurely patriotic motives disguised her sex, and patiently enduredthe hardships and braved the dangers of military life. She wasbelieved to be a pure-minded though mistaken woman; and,when her sex was discovered, was detailed as a nurse in thehospital, the duties of which station were cheerfully and faith-fully done. Mr. Bullard is now a resident of Weston, Mass. William Henry ILLIAM HENRY, the eldest son of John Mary (Ward) Butterfield, was born at Way-land, Dec. 25, 1840. He was among the few, who, at the ontbreak ofthe war, saw an imperative duty resting on theyoung men of our country to defend its imper-illed integrity by force of arms ; and he resolvedto render such service as was in his enlisted as a private soldier in Company H of the Thir-teenth Infantry Regiment on the 17th of July, 1861. Of thiscompany Capt. William L. Clark was commander. In stature, Mr. Butterfield was five feet five and a half inches,with dark complexion, black hair and eyes, and a cordwainerby occupation. He joined the regiment at Fort Independence, Boston har-bor, and, on the 30th of July, proceeded to the seat of war;being assigned to duty in the northern part of Maryland, nearthe Potomac River. Here, during the pleasant season of the year, the m
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