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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 7 Franklin County . (search)
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge a city. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Big things at Camp Dick Robertson . (search)
Heroic sisters.
--There dwelt in the village of Montague, at the period of the French revolution, two girls named Felicite and Theophile Fernig.
Both possessed beauty of a sweet and attractive kind; but were modest, reserved, and apparently timid.
The youngest was thirteen years of age when the nightly attacks of the Austrians demanded an immediate and strong resistance.
Soldiers being wanted, the sisters put on their brothers' clothes, armed themselves, and charged the plunding parties in the front rank of the National Guard.
Notwithstanding every effort to disguise themselves effectually, Gen. Buernonville discovered them, and marking their intrepid conduct, presented them to Gen. Dumourfez, who attached them, together with their father and brother, to his staff.
Not only pure, but free from suspicion, they were the admiration and pride of the whole army.
They distinguished themselves in every action previous to April 5, 1693.
In an engagement near Brussels, they rus
Indians in North Texas.
--The following is an extract from a responsible letter from Carnesville, Cook county, Texas, dated February 13th, 1863;
"We have the Indians in our county.
They have stolen several horses, and have killed four persons, two of whom were near Montague, by the same of Moore.
They were out spatting rails when they killed them.
They out off their cars and hands and ped them.
The two others were named Stump and Seiley.
They were stripped of all their clothing nd signs is plenty all over the country, and there is much excitement here about it"
The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Capture of a Yankee transport. (search)