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A REMARKABLE CAREER. book was accordingly published by said company, which proved a success, and furnished remunerative employ-' ment to many disabled soldiers and war widows in selling it by subscrip in life I had more gave her of that demoralized household, but regimental hospital became filled from a credit mark, for rescuing anybody no such unhappy event transpired. cases of sunstroke and other causes, even a lover. From that time forth Ij "That same afternoon I bade them then I was detailed on hospital duty never ceased planning all good by, and returned to my self- Dr. A.

B. Palmer, surgeon in charge, it was years before I accomplished it. imposed duties. I walked almost all When the sick were sent to city few weeks before I left night to reach my destination, the i tals and preparations were made to distance I think was nineteen miles, march to Bull Bun, I returned to mv hat so far a9 he can remember, said duty consisted cheilly of either acting as nurse or carrying mail. And de- ponent further says, that during all of said time, said "Franklin Thompson, (S.

Emma E. Seelye) bore a good reputation, always behaved as a person of good moral character and aconsistent christian, and was always ready for duty-. And deponent further says; that he makes this statement from personal knowlege, having known said Franklin Thompson as aforesaid, and that he knows that said S. Emma E. Seelye is the identical Franklin Thompson as aforesaid.

And the deponent further says, that on or about the fifth day of August, A. D. 1862, he was mustered in as First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Twenty-Third Michigan Infantry A'olunteers. bv Lieutenant Col. J.

K. Smith, U. A. at Detroit, Michigan, and was mustered im as Captain of Company "Kn in said regiment on September but only a portion of it was an open, well defined road, the other part only a narrow path through the woods. "Soon after that, by a strange catastrophe, 1 lost every dollar that I owned and all my books except a Bible my sample and mv valise.

I sold the Bible for five dollars, and with that in my pocket I started for the United States, in mid winter snow three feet deep in New Brunswick. In that wav I performed the journey from Fred-ericton, Xew Brunswick, with the exceptions of a few miles ride occasionally. "Oh I could tell you a talc of suffering and hardships and weariness endured on that journey that no experience of mine in the army ever equaled. I reached Hartford in a most forlorn condition. A stranger in a strange country a fit subject for a hospital without money and without friends.

"1 went to a hotel just as if I had plenty of money, and rested several days before presenting myself to the publishers. My feet were badly frostbitten and my boots literally worn out, and my last suit of clothes were rather the worse for wear, and my linen well it is hardly worth speaking of. But 1 had a good watch and chain, which I pawned for a sum sufficient to enable me to make a more resxec-table appearance. "Then, wiih as gentlemanly an address as I could get up, I introduced myself to the publishers, and almost in the same breath 1 asked them it they had any use for a bov who had neither money nor friends, but who was hard to beat on selling books. Thev laughed a good hearty, manlv 'Yes, you are just the boy we want if you are hard to beat on selling books, we will be both monev and friends to.

vou. I told them thev would have to take me on trial, as 1 had no security" tc- give them. One of the firm, named Scranton, said 'Yre'll take your face for it.r Another of the firm. Mr. Hurlbert who afterwards published myr book took me home to his house and introduced me to his family as 'a boy who was hard to beat on selling books I dined there that day, and after dinner was invited to go with them in their carriage for a drive around the city.

The kinrincss I received that day was worth a thousand dollars to me. I have never forgotten it. and 1 hope they have never had reason to regret it. The next day they employed me as their agent, and gave mo money, and books sufficient for a successful campaign in Nova Scotia I think it required over fifty dollars cash to pay my way there and my expenses after 1 got there until I had sold and delivered my first lot of books. Oh.

how manly 1 felt and what pride 1 took in proving to them that their confidence in me was not misplaced. "I went to Nova Scotia in February and returned in November of the same year, and in that time I cleared nine hundred dollars. I stopped at first-class houses, lived dressed well, and gave away more money to benevolent societies, than in all the rest of my life, and came near marrying a pretty little girl who was bound 1 should not leave Nova Scotia without her. "The next trip I made wa out west, according to Horace Greeley's advice to young men to 'go west and grow up with the But before I had time to grow up much, the war broke out ana I became a soldier. So, you see, 'tis true that "The best laid plans mice and men, gang aft agley." AVhen the late rebellion broke out I was in the vicinity of Flint, Michigan, and was present when the hrst troops bade farewell to home and mends and marched to their place of rendezvous at Detroit, Michigan.

It was rwhile witnessing the anguish of that' first parting that I became convinced that too, had a duty to perform in the sacred cause oi Truth and reedom. I snent davs and nights of anxious thought in deciding in what capacity li snouia iry 10 serve mu umuu cause and during, all my deliberations this i fact was borne in upon me. viz. That could best serve the interests ot the Union cause in male attire could bet ter perform the necessary duties for sick and wounded men, and witn less embarrassment to them and to myself as a man than as a woman. 1 enlisted under the name of rank- lin, Thompson, as private soldier in Co.

2nd Michigan Jntantry olunteers, on or about the 25th of May, A. D. 1861, and was mustered into the service bv Lx. CoL J. K.

Smith, u. Morse, Captain Co. Col. Israel B. Richardson commanding Reoiment had no other motive in enlisting than love to God.

and love for suffer- ino-humanitv. I felt called to eo and do what I could for the defense of the lUg miiiiiwi jl ul right if I could not fight I could take the place of some one who could and thus add one more soldier to the ranks, I at first enlisted for three months, and afterwards re-enlisted for three years or during the war. I had no desire to be promoted to any office, I went with no other ambition than to nurse the sick and care for the wound ed. I had inherited from my gift of nursing, and when not a rare Th toryofa Heroic Woman, Who Served Over Two Years In the Army, Doing Valuable Service for the Country. She Is Now a Happy Wife and Mother, and Resides in Fort Scott.

That truth is stranger than liction is aram exemnlitied in the life story of Mrs. K. E. derive, who resides with her hu.baud. Mr.

II. Seelye, a re spectable gentleman" of many years residence in this city. A Monitor reporter learned the "principal points in her romantic career, which embody briefly all of the vicissitudes of a two yeariervice in the war of the rebellion as a member of the Second Michigan Infantry, several mouths ago, but has- not been at liberty to use them un-1l now. Mr. Seelye i the wife of Mr.

L. II. Sfdye, a successful and first-class car-denier, who resides now in Southeast Fort, Scott. The couple have resided in this city several years and arc universally respected and esteemed by all who know them. Mrs.

Seelye. story is told best by herself a related toa Monitor reporter, beginning back at the events which led up to the remarkable career which ha linked her name undissolubly with the greatest of modern wars Mrs. S. E. Seelye, formerly Miss Sarah Edmonds, alias Frank Thompson, woman between forty and fifty car.

of age. She has black hair anil it quick, intelligent expression -ind a general appearance suggesting tin idea that she might have made her toilette wieh scrupulous care, as to neatne. but possibly without a mirror. I ler manner in direet.honest and tie'' from any traces of self-eouscious-3H With the exception of an occasions phrase, more current in the -huivh of which she is still an active member, than elsewhere, her diction is a clear and graphic as her manner is unpretentious, he spoke freely 1 1W-1 -I l- -k S. ortT expressed a desire to oinethinir of her carl life and of the causes which led her into such exceptional circumstances, she gave an account of her girlhood which is reproduced as nearly as possible in her own words have expressed a desire to "know what led me to assume male attire.

1 will try to tell you. 1 think I rh born into this world with some -dormant antagonism toward man. 1 fiope I have outgrown it measurably, but my infant soul was impressed with a t'iiui. mv iinthriis u'rnn iri Vinfriro ev ver saw the light, and 1 probably drew from her breast with mv daily food my love of independence and ha tred ot male tyranny. Youth generalizes.

In our family the women were not sheltered but en slaved: hence I naturally grew up to think of man as the impiaeabldbr my I linl lint mi itmi of tnirjjJii nnv of them. If occasionallv I met one who seemed a little better than others, set him down my mimi as a wolf in sheep's clothing, and proba blv lo worthy of trust than the rest. "Mv father was a New Brunswick farmer a descent, or mixture of Scotch and Irish; my mother was French. -Very early in life I was forced to Tihe conclusion, from close observation nnu bitter experience, that matrimony wa not a safe investment for me. Although I was favored with more than one touching declaration' of implying love, I greatly preferred the of earning my own bread butter.

When I was thirteen years old, one of those peculiar little incidents occurred which seems like God's own linger pointing out the way to a struggling soul. -Late one evening an old peddler 'vamc along, weary with his burden. My mother invited him in, gave him supper and made him comfortable for the night. She never let an opportunity escape of doing a kindness to a rreatures who were week or weary. "Next morning the old man seemed very grateful, and by way of appreciation of the kinducs's received, he presented me with a book entitled 'Fanny Campbell, the Female It was first novel I had ever seen.

"There were four sisters of us, and 1 was the youngest a mere child. Why should that man have selected mc as the recipient of such a gift "That day my sister and 1 were sent to the tield to plant potatoes. It was a new piece of land, far from the house, and we took as well as the potatoesthe book and a luncheon and spent the day there. If I remember the potatoes were not all 3 A anted That was the most wonderful day "in tdl my life. The battle of Bull Bun was a circumstance to it.

Surelv 1 must have been inspired I felt as if an angel hail touched me with a live coal from oil the altar. All the latent energy of my nature was aroused, and 'fach exploit of the heroine thrilled me iomv ihisrertips. .1 went home that nisriit with the problem of my life Dolvcd. felt equal to any emergency. 1 was emancipated! and could never be a lave.

"When I read where 'Fanny cut off lier brown curls, and donned "the blue jacket, and stepped into the freedom aind glorious independence of threw up myr old straw hat and fehouted, a I have since heard Mc-Clellau soldiers do, when he rode past the troops on a march only, one throat could not make quite so much noise. 'The onlv drawback in my mind in regard to the book, was this The heroine went to, rescue an imprisoned 1 n-1 llWinrl llAT "tllQt cVlO XT12 AVf Vi til A JJiHWUL OUV M-J only a poor Iuvc-siek girl, after all, like so many I had known, and 1 regretted cthat she had no higher ambition than Tunning after a man. Perhaps later on a a iamer took it into ins head to marry me on, ana get na ot me. In obedi- ence to orders. I became engaged, but while the preparations were going on lor tne wedding, one starless I most unceremoniously left for parts nnknown.

"But before going over to tho cne my, i naa procured tne address ot a publishing house in Hartford, and an outht for canvassing for a fam lly Bible. The next thing was to test the experiment of canvassing. I could not prevail upon myself to go into a house, until 1 became so hungry that necessity drove me to do so. I travel ed all night and hid in the woods all day, until I became accustomed to my new costume, and, finally, when I did venture out, it was in the evening twilight, and I was received with so much respect and kindness that I con cluded that I must bo quite a gentleman. As soon as I got far enough away irom home to make it sate.

I went to work in good such success as I met with deserves to be recorded in historv. 'I soon became a famous bookseller. The publishing company told me that they had employed agents for thirty-years, and they never had employed one that could outsell me. 1 made money, dressed well, owned and drove fine horse and buggy silver-mount ed harness and all the paraphernalia of a nice turnout took mv ladv friends ont riding occasionally, and had a nice time generally. "Alter a vear's absence I went home to sec my mother, I could not stand it any longer, even at the risk of detection and imprisonment no doubt you are aware that the British laws, as well as the laws of this free and happy country, punish with imprison- so great a crime as any infringe ment on the rights and privileges of the 4lords of creation even in so small matter as the fashion of their most lordly garments.

This is what I call i i masculine law ana masculine justice meted out with a vengeance. "But to return, 1 went to mv moth- ers nousc and introduced mysclt as Frank Thompson. My mother was very kind and invited me to stay to dinner, which 1 did. While my sister was preparing dinner, my mother entertained me with a brief history of her lost daughter. I sat there and listened and talked for an hour to the mother that bore me, and she never knew that I was her child.

Was not that a complete disguise My father was not at home. My brother soon came in from the farm, and was introduced to Mr. Thompson. I told him 1 wanted to buy a good saddle horse, and inquired if he had one to sell. He thought he could suit me, and we went to the stables to look at the horses.

My pets in the barn-yard knew me better than my human friends, and came crowding around me. Under pretense of examining the horses mouths, I put mv arm around their necks and hugged their dear old heads, and they rubbed their noses against mc in recognition. The sheep, too, knew me, and flocked around, licking mv hands and nibbling at mv cloth ing, and refused to be driven awav. The loving remembrance of those dear dumb creatures made mc cry, and 1 turned aside to hide my tears. "After looking at the horses, I de cided that I did not want anv of them, and we returned to the house.

Dinner was announced, and wrc sat down and ate and chatted for an hour, but to me it was the hardest dinner to swallow of any I ever ate finally I stopped trying to eat, and sat with folded arms looking at them. My mother, looking up through a mist of tears, asked my sister, 'Fanny, don't you think this voung man looks like your poor "That was the straw that broke the camel's back. I burst into tears and went and knelt beside her, and said. 'Mother, dear, don't you know me 1 But she declared it simply impossible for her to believe that I was her daughter. "Like Mr.

Stuart, she required proof before believing anything so absurd. Her heart was convinced, but her eyes and her intellect refused to admit the fact. While I knelt bv her side her hand rested or wandered lovingly over mv short cnrls, but suddenly rising she drew me to the window and scanned my face closely, and then said with emphasis, 'No, vou are not mv child. Mv daughter had a mole on her left cheek, but there is none touching mv cheek softly with her hand. 'Mother, 1 said, 'get vour orlaecoe rl i-rtu ir-ill tlr crof had the mole removed for fear I might be detected by it.

But before she could attempt to get them I ran to her room and brought her glasses from the little shelf where she used to keep them, and placed them on her dear face, iust as I used to do. Then she saw that the mole had really been re moved, and was convinced. She cried and laughed both at once, and I caught her up in my strong arms as if she were a babv," and carried her round the room and held her and kissed her until she forgave me for running away from her. Oh! I tell you, we had grand time there for an hour or two and the big 'elder brother did not refuse to come in and rejoice over the prodigal's return. "I never saw anybody look so completely-outdone as my brother when I told him who I was.

He didn't say a word for some time then said, AVell, I thousrht it was mighty strange that the slock made such. fuss about the fellow." After.the first excitement was over, I found myself freq uently glancing towards the door, fearing that I might IV VI UiUC lJ.w Vi. Ave iut. a u.gui company and remained in the ranks during the first fight at Bull Run. AY hen the Union army retreated to Ccntrcville Heights, stacked arms and threw themselves on the ground, as I supposed for the night, I went into the stone church, which was used as ahos- pital at Centreville, and became so much engaged in doing what I could for the wounded and dyinff that I for- got cverythiug outside the hospital.

and beiore 1 Knew it the whole army-had retreated to Washington, but I escaped under cover of the darkness and made my way alone to AVashing-ton, not arriving there until 24 hours after the troops had reached their old camp. The defeat at Bull Bun filled the hospitals and I was again detailed on hospital duty. Some months after this I cannot remember the date I became mail carrier for. the 2nd M. and subsequently postmaster and mail carrier for the brigade to which the Second Michigan, Infantry belonged, Berry's, I think.

In this capacity I went to the peninsula with General McClellan's army, and remained there as postmaster 'and mail carrier all through the peninsula campaign. During the seige of Yorktown, I carried the mail on horseback for the brigade, from Fotress Monroe to the troops in front of Yorktown letters, papers and packages, averaging, I think, from two to three bushels each trip the distance, about thirty-five or thirty miles. Owing to the condition of the roads, I was often compelled to spend the nights alone by the roadside. It was reported that the bushwhackers had murdered a mail carrier on that road, and robbed the mail, and there seemed to be evidence in the fact, for in the most lonely- spot of all the road, the ground was still strewn with fragments of letters and papers, over which I often passed when it was so dark that I only knew it by the rustle of the letters under my horse's feet. I as at tho battle of AYllliamsburgh.

where many of the brave Second Michigan Infantry were killed and wounded, and anions the wounded was AYrm. pany K. Morse, Captain Corn-Michigan Infantry, whom I assisted in removing to the transport which took the wounded to Fortress Monroe. AVhen the battle of Fair Oaks occurred, 1 w-as sick with chills and fever, but worked among the wounded until they were sent away, and then tried to assist in identifying and burying the dead, E. J.

Bonine, surgeon in charge of Second AYTiile the Union troops lay in front of Richmond, the floods frequently-carried away the Chickahoming bridges, and I was more than once obliged to swim my horse across the swift running stream in going back and forth with the mail. Those cold baths in the Chickahoming river fastened the chills and fever upon mc, which eventually drove mc from the army setting drenched in the saddle for hours, sometimes all night, shivering by the roadside watching for daylight to pick my way through the dangerous mud holes through whfrh mule teams had wallowed. I was also in the seven days fight crossing the peninsula to the James river, and more than onco I narrowly escaped with my life. I cannot, at this time, after a lapse of twenty y-ears, remem-member by whose order or suggestion I went to a farm house w-hicti stood some distance from our line, to secure some stores for our famishing men. I went, however, and while there the enemy opened fire upon our troops at that point, and before I could return I found myself between two fires, our men having responded but I secured the provisions and returned unhurt.

After the army went into camp at Harrison's Landing, I resumed my duties as postmaster, and when General McClellan's army was ordered from the peninsula, I returned to Alexan dria with Company' Second Michi- gan Infantry. Upon the arrival of the troons at Alexandria, thev were sent forward to re-iuforcc General Pope in the Shenondoah Vallcv, and I did not join them again until at the battle of second Bull ICun. I was at the battle of Frederick-burgh, and by my own request, acted as Orderly for for General O. M. Poe during the battle, Burnsidc commanding.

I went to Kentucky on or about the the 20th of 1863, with Corn- pany Second Michigan Infantry. About this time the Second Michigan, riuyrVA 4St VT I Birney's division third corpse to first brigade, Burn's division, ninth corps, CoL Wm. Humphrey commanding regiment. I remained with Company Second Michigan, at Barstown and 'T 41 41 VI. 1 a uccame debilitated by chills and fever contracted on the' peninsula.

I had, previous to this, applied for leave of absence, but was refused, my papers having been retnrned disapproved7, I now became discouraged, and fearing thaf if I remained longer my sex might be discovered. I left the armv some time in April, 1863, and proceeded to Oberlin, Ohio, where I remained four weeks in the pictures. I went to Hartford, Conn, and made arrangements with Hurlbert, Williams Co. to publish a book entitled "The Nurse and Spy," which I wrote for the tion. Knowing the publishers of said book to be faithful men, and true to the interests of Union soldiers, I left it in their hands to superintend and pay-over to different organizations Santa- ry Commission, Christian Commission, ceedsofthe book which belonged to me, and I returned to hospital duty once more, under the auspices of the Christion Commission, at Harper's Ferry, Kev.

J. K. Miller, agent, for the Department of the Cumberland. I remained in that department nursing the sick and wounded, visiting different hospitals from Harper's Ferry to Clarksburgh, AVest A'irginia, distributing the delicacies and more substantial comforts furnished through the agency of the "Nurse and Spy," until the close of the war. Then, when fiually victory perched upon the national banner, and the dear old stars and stripes once more floated over every cityv town and hamlet of the South, as in the North, I went back to Oberlin, Ohio, where I studied for a time, but found it too monotonous, after so much excitement.

In 1866 1 went home to visit my people in New Brunswick, and returned to Ohio the same year. In 1867 1 was married to L. H. Seelye, of Saint John. N.

whose love and tender care still bless my declining years. I make no statement of anyr secret services. In my mind there is" almost as much odium attached to the word "spy'" as there is to the word "deserter." There is so much mean deception necessarily practiced by a spy, that I much prefer everyone should believe that I never was beyond the enemy's than fasten uponjiie by oath a thing that 1 despise so much. It may-do in war time, but it is not pleasant to think upon in time of peace. 1 never was wounded in battle, nor taken prisoner, but 1 was disabled by accident on three different on duty, from the effects of which, I think, I have never fully recovered.

I have never received any bounty or back pay from State or Government. I do not remember the date to which I was paid in the army. The book entitled the Nurse and Spy mentioned by' Mrs. Seelye was written by her about the first of the third year of the war under the aus-picies of the Sanitary Commission, and was published and sold for the benefit of the wounded and sick soldiers of the war. An idea of her services in that direction and the sterling qualities of her character may be gathered from the following letter bearing upon the subject.

Hartford, March 8, 1882. Mrs. E.E. Skejak. Madam Y'our letter of the 23d February is received and contents noted.

I am willing to state all I know in regard to your services in the army and among the sick soldiers. 1 sup pose you did enlist in a Michigan regiment as Frank Thompson: heard nothing from you until you left the 'army. AYhen you returned you wrote" a book "Nurse and Spy," which gave an account of your doings in the war, which had a large sale. I think 175,000 copies. AVe, as publishers, gave the sanitary commission and other cause bnndreds of dollars from the profits of the book also gave you, I think, two $500 bonds, $1,000 of which you used among the sick and wounded soldiers at Harpers Ferry.

1 understood at the time you had appropriated the amount in that way. You spent some months, I think, at Harpers Ferry often heard of you by the way of chaplins of ray acquaintance who had met you there; You ask me if S. Eursua, E. Edmunds and Frank Thompson are one and the same. I answer yes.

I know they are the same person I knew of Frank Thompson in Nova Scotia and knew of Miss S. E. Emma Edmunds here can state that she was a good Christian lady, honest and true, as far as my knowledge extends. AVhen Frank" Thompson left for the army in Michigan he returned the books and wrote us that he had enlisted, it was his duty to do so, if ho knew he would be kilied. You, Mrs.

Saeley, have done everything in your power for the sick and wounded soldiers and for the Union cause. You aeserve a pension irom the govern ment, ours truly, A. M. IIuLBKRT. If Mrs.

Seelvc needed further auth entication, which it docs not, the fol- lowing mases complete: State of Michigan, Count of Genesee. ss. Damon Stewart being bv mc dnlv sworn, aeposes and says that he is a resident of the City of Flint. Count of Genesee, and State of Michigan, and tn ne was ennstea as a private in i Company "F-3 Second regiment, Mich gaa Infantry roluntecrs at Z. 1 AV A.

1 1 A 1 igau, uu or auom mc eignieemn aay of April, A. 1861 and that he was subsenncntlv nromntcd to Cnrnnwl jana sergeant of said company respect i lviey. And deponent And lurther savs that S. Emma Seeylc is the identi cal person wrho enlisted under the name of Franklin Thompson, as a pri-ivate in said Company F.W Second Kegiment, Michigan Infantry, Volunteers at Detroit, Michigan, on or about the first day of Mav, A. D.

1861. And deponent further says that the said deponent, remained 'with said company and regiment until 3Iav 5th. 1861, when he was wounded and left said company and regiment. And-the deponent further savs, that during said time from on or about April 18th. 1861, until May 5th, 1862, when he said i deponent was with said company and regiment, said Franklin Thompson, (S.

Emma E. Seelye) remained with said company and regiment, and performed cheerfully and fully and at all times any duty which was assigned her, and this deponent further says, 12th, 1862, and further saith not, Damon Stkwart, Late Captain Co. 23d Bgt. Mich. lnf.ol's.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 8th day of March, A. D. 1882. Deponent is the person he represents himself to be and a crcdiablc person. John J.

Cartkr, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Genesee Mich. Font. Michigan, March 81, 1882. Thi is to certify, that in the month of May, 1861, enlisted in Company -F, Second Kegiment, Michigan A'ol-unteers Infantry, and that during tho same month, one Franklin Thompson, enlisted as a private soldier in the same companr. He proceeded with the regiment to AY'ashington and was present at the first battle of Bun Iluu.

and in the several egagements on the peninsula, A'irginia. lie was for some time Regimental Mail Carrier, and was especially attentive to the sick in hospital. A few days since I met this same Frank Thompson (whom I immediately recognized) in the person of Mrs. S- Emma E. Seelye, now a resident of Kansas.

AYrM. B. McCrkeky, Late Col. 21st Mich. A'ol's luft.

Besides these, Mrs. Sccley has in her possession a largo number of similar affidavits and statements taken at about the same time, which was the first intimation that the members of the Second Michigan had that their former comrade was a woman and fixing her identity. From "Michigan in the AY'ar," a historical sketch of all of the Michigan regiments which served in the war, carefully compiled byJohnl.obertson. Adjutant General, the following allusion to Fimnk Thompson appears In Company 2d Michigan, there enlisted at Flint Franklin Thompson (or Frank, as usually called,) aged twenty, ascertained afterward and aboutthe- time he left the regiment to have been a female, and a good looking one at that. She succeeded in concealing her sex most admirably, serving in various campaigns and battles of the regiment as a soldier often employed, as a spy, going within the enemy's lines, sometimes absent for weeks, and is said to have furnished much valuable information.

She remained with the regiment until April, 1863. when it is suimosed she appre hended disclosure of her sex and deserted at where she went remains a mvstery. Headquarters 1st Brigade, (APE, OX, 5, Burn's Division, Opnoflle Frcdcrichxhurxi, Lk. 5, Orders, No. 19.

II. Private Frank Thompson, "Com pany 2d Michigan volunteers, is detailed on special duty at these headquarters as postmaster and mail carrier for the brigade. Signed, O. M. Poe, Colonel Comd'g Brigade.

Official: James Kejd. A A ATI lueut. ana i. i. u.

In closing this interesting and dra matic sketch the reporter feels con- I -3 11 1 ..1 ,1 1 1 1 I- 1 BtUU 111. HUCU BUC UCUU1UU UVl UVUVl in early life that Honor nor shame from condition riso. Act well your part there all the honor hew." In all of the struggles and vici3i-, tudes of her eventful career she acted her part nobly and courageously, and now as a respected wife and mother she acts well the duties assigned to her by the cares and responsibility of husband and children. MISCZXXAXZCttTS, OR. J.W.

C3 CO in, nr iuii liv in Pf llllM L3 PULL ContpJcunt, Indaestion. Consimailcn. and PURIFY THE BLOOD. keu HaTiag bjenbeWuT.pabH fr qurt7o WM promiawi for them, ibey jurit the accea th SEBCaolTS too weary or exhausted, there was a same costume which had served as magnetic power in my hands to soothe mail carrier. Then I changed my ap-the delirium.

i pareL and resumed my own proper I went to Fort Wayne. Detroit, dress, and have never worn any dis-Miehisran. and drilled, did fatisrue dutv guUes since, except when sitting for and performed all the necessary duties of a soldier in camp, and when ofi duty I assisted in caring for the sick I went to Washington with the above named company and regiment, stood uwtuv vviM-- CS ww MT TT unexpectedly find mvself face to face guard and picket dutv, and drilled benefit of the sick and wounded sol-with the stern master of ceremonies with Co. F. 2nd Michigan, until the; diers, to whom it was dedicated.

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