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The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], A brave woman. (search)
ting 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 and surrounded the house, and demanded of Mrs. Waugh all the arms and ammunition which her husband had. She told them her husband was absent, and had left her to take care of the store and defend the family. They assured her that if she would quietly surrender the arms, she and the family should not be hurt. She refused to comply with the demand, and gathering an are, placed herself in the door of the building, and told them s