. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . MISS ROLBTE WOOL-RUFF. caded many times with high rails and rock fences. There was nomore superb equestrienne in the valley of the Tennessee—and she wasof magnificent physique. She had a thoroughbred horse trained to herbidding. The young lady started, her horse leaped the fences like areindeer, and came out on the pike just in front of the troopers,four miles from home. They took after her, but her foaming steed (>K THE sol Ill m was so fleet of foot thai she goi away from them in the twinklingi an eye, and saved her friends from
. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . MISS ROLBTE WOOL-RUFF. caded many times with high rails and rock fences. There was nomore superb equestrienne in the valley of the Tennessee—and she wasof magnificent physique. She had a thoroughbred horse trained to herbidding. The young lady started, her horse leaped the fences like areindeer, and came out on the pike just in front of the troopers,four miles from home. They took after her, but her foaming steed (>K THE sol Ill m was so fleet of foot thai she goi away from them in the twinklingi an eye, and saved her friends from capture. I recollect another heroine, a Lieutenant of an Arkansasregiment. She stepped and walked the personification of a soldierbo) : had won her spurs on the battlefield at Hull Run, Fort Donelson,and Shiloh, and was promoted for gallantry. One evening she came. MRS. MAT7TXA nUNTEH-HARTHS. to General Stewarts headquarters, at Tyners Station, with an orderfrom Major Kinloch Falconet to report for duty as a scout, but uponhis finding that he was a woman, she was sent back and the or-der revoked. She has written a book. In point of devotion and of nursing our soldiers in distress, thesick, the wounded, the women of the South, were all Florence Night-ingales. It would be invidious to discriminate, but I will mentionsome of the other noteworthy deeds. I have another heroine—blessher sweet soul. I have forgotten her name. One day General Morgansent a squad of us on a scout and we were pursued by Colonel Funk-erhausers regiment in Dennys Bend of Cumberland river, near Rome,Tennessee. My heroine, a little girl of fourteen, directed us to Brad-ley Island for safety—a place of some sixty acres in cultivation, but 496 BATTLES AND SKETCHES ARMY OE TENNESSEE. on the river side it was encircled by a sandbar with driftwood lodgedon an occasional stubby
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