| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| February 18, 1862 |
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| Another disaster -- a sad Romance |
| The Knoxville (Tenn.) Register, of the
28th ult., says: |
| An accident occurred on Wednesdayevening,
on the E. T. & Ga. {East Tennessee &
Georgia} Railroad, by which several persons were injured--one
fatally. The train which was bringing the 23d Alabama regiment to this
city, ran off the track a few miles this side of Cleveland, wrecking
the train badly. A girl, in uniform, who was with the soldiers without
revealing her sex, but who did not belong to this regiment, was
sitting on the platform of one of the cars, and had her legs so badly
crushed that amputation was necessary, and both were taken off, but
without swell, and death put an end to her suffering at night. She
gave her name as Lilly White, and told a sad story of woman's wrongs.
She had disguised herself in male attire, and joined this regiment
with the expectation of finding her deceiver, who is in the army, and
avenging her shame. |
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