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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], A brave woman. (search)
A brave woman. --A friend has communicated to us the following particulars, showing the heroism of a lady (Mrs. Julia H, Waugh) in Johnson county, East Tennessee, which entitles her to a place among the bravest of the brave. About the 10th of August a mob of about 150 men in all, led by Johnson, Grayson Locke and others commended their depredations and insults in the county above named, near the North Carolina line, hunting down the friends of the Confederate Government and forcing the weak and defenceless to take the cath of allegiance to Lincoln. A portion of this mob, some fifty or sixty in number, visited the house of Major McQueen, and demanded of his wife to know where he was. She refused, at the peril of her life, to tell them; and after a sound cursing, which they received from an old negro woman, who had no respect for Lincoln's minions, they left, and soon after visited the storehouse of Mr. Wm.R. Wangh, who was absent at the time. Their Captain marched his men up an