NEWS OF 150 YEARS AGO
September 1862
From The Missouri Democrat, Friday, September 12, 1862.
A Spartan Woman—The Daughter of the Michigan 10th.
Mrs. L. L. Deming, well and favorably know to the habitués of concerts, who has, for a long time, been lost sight of, turns up in a new role—a kind of Good Samaritan, Amazonian attaché of the army. The Cleveland Herald says of this truly excellent woman that she is the adopted daughter of the 10th Michigan regiment, in which her husband is captain. Mrs. D. has followed the fortunes of her husband since the regiment entered the service. She has nursed the sick, cheered the wounded, sang for the low-spirited, and made herself worth her weight in gold in all these offices which an energetic, fearless woman knows how to perform. She can ride her sixty miles on horseback without dismounting but once, she can march with the best of them, she is as familiar with the music of shell and ball as with her own notes, and she is enthusiastically devoted to the war. She was with the army before Corinth, was under fire repeatedly, but never turned her back on the foe but once, when she was ordered to skedaddle, as one of our own batteries was placed right in the rear of her own tent, which was sure to go by the board at the first fire. Mrs. Deming wore her uniform while in the camp, having a haversack, canteen, and belt with revolvers.