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The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Taking an airing. --Miss Dr Walker, the Yankee surgeons captured sometime since in Tennessee, was yesterday given an airing on our streets, under escort of that patriarchal looking individual, Capt John Caphart. She was uniformed in blue cloth pants, frock coat, buttoned up to the chin, a lady's black for hat, and a pair of highly polished boots. Small in stature and pale in features, the observer, on passing her, is forcibly reminded of an over worked factory girl, attired in the uniform of a youth who has just discarded the roundabout. As she paraded our streets a goodly concourse of barefooted boys, little negroes, and dogs brought up the rear, highly amused at the free exhibition which was being afforded by permission of Capt L W Richardson, the commandant at Castle Thunder. Miss Walker has recently been quite sick, and yesterday's promenade was recommended to facilitate her convalescence. The ostensible reason which took Miss Walker out yesterday was to lay before