Identifier: battlessketcheso00ridl (find matches)
Title: Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ridley, Bromfield Lewis
Subjects: Confederate States of America -- History, Military United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Mexico, Mo. : Missouri Printing & Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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al Coleman of the IndianTerritory, a Miss Puss Whitty, aged 19 of Knobnoster, a Federal Postin Johnson county, Missouri, rode from home sixty miles, starting inthe night, and carried news to the intrepid Quantrell. At anothertime when a company of Federals were at her fathers house (Capt.William Whitty) in search for contraband goods, she shot a lieu-tenant, wounded a private and escaped. They outlawed her. Heruncle was shot from ambush, breaking his under jaw, and cutting offhis tongue. Miss Whitty went twenty miles at night, found her uncle,carried him home and hid him in an old well until he recovered suf- 492 BATTLES AND SKETCHES ARMY OF TENNESSEE. ficiently to ride away. The authorities finally captured and banishedher from the State. The old scouts in the West will remember two other heroinesthrough whose aid we were often saved from attack and told whenand where to strike. Miss Kate Patterson, now Mrs. Kyle, of La-vergne, Tennessee, and Miss Robbie Woodruff, who lived ten miles
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EMMA 8ANSOM. from Nashville. They would go into Nashville get what informationwas needed, and place it in a designated tree, stump or log to be con-veyed to us by our secret scouts. I have often wondered if the dia-gram of works around Nashville found on the person of Sam Daviswas not gotten through them, notwithstanding the impression re-ceived that it was stolen from General Dodges table by a negro boy.Miss Woodruff thrilled the scouts by her many perilous achievements.But I have a heroine of the mountains who developed in wartimes, yd on account of her obscure habitation and the bitter heart-burnings existing between the two factions, so nearly divided in her-■Hon, that history lias not yet given her name merited fame. Igot her record from the Rev. J. II. Nichols, who lived in her sectionof Putnam county, three miles from Cookeville, Tennessee. Her nameliss Marina Gunter, now Mrs. Jos Harris. Her father, Larkin Heroines of tiie s<u in. m Gunter, was a Southern man, and some bu

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