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The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The two heroines, Misses Kerr and McLeod. (search)
The two heroines, Misses Kerr and McLeod. The two noble heroines, Misses Abbie Kerr and Mary McLeod, of Fairmont, Marion county, who rode from their home to Phillippi, a distance of thirty-odd miles, to apprise our forces there of the approach of the enemy, arrived in Staunton by the Western train on Wednesday night last, and remained till Friday morning, when they went to Richmond. Whilst here they were the "observed of all observers," and were received with a cerdial welcome. Great aMisses Abbie Kerr and Mary McLeod, of Fairmont, Marion county, who rode from their home to Phillippi, a distance of thirty-odd miles, to apprise our forces there of the approach of the enemy, arrived in Staunton by the Western train on Wednesday night last, and remained till Friday morning, when they went to Richmond. Whilst here they were the "observed of all observers," and were received with a cerdial welcome. Great anxiety was manifested by all to hear a detailed account of their interesting adventures from their own lips.--They left Fairmont at 6 o'clock on Sunday morning, and hastened, without escorts, to Phillippi. They had not gone a great distance before they found that a shoe of one of the horses needed fixing. They stopped at a blacksmith's shop for that purpose, and whilst there a Union man came up and questioned them very closely as to who they were, and on what mission they were going. Miss Mc