Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2.
Frank Moore, Ed.

The war occasions many ludicrous incidents. It is stated that Mary W. Dennis, six feet two inches high, is first lieutenant of the Stillwater company, Minnesota regiment. She baffied even the inspection of the surgeon of the regiment in discovering her sex, but was recognized by a St. Paul printer, who became shockingly frightened at her threats of vengeance upon him if he exposed her, and he decamped.

Among the women who marched in procession with the Garibaldi Guard, in New YOrk, the other day, were several volunteers as washerwomen, who evidently do not believe in the old saying that every man should be his own washerwoman. [59]

The Mobile Advertiser defends the offer of a premium or bounty of $25, made by the Confederate Government, for every prisoner captured and delivered to the authorities by the privateers. The object of the proclamation, it insists, is “that an influence may be exerted to render the prosecution of privateer warfare as bloodless as possible, by offering an inducement for checking the conflicts on the sea at the earliest stages of the actions when victory is secure — to induce care for the wounded and other prisoners, that they may be brought alive and safe to a port where a live prisoner is worth $25 to his captors.”

A secessionist proposes through the Mobile Register to raze Fort Pickens with red pepper. He would mix red pepper and veratria with the powder in the shells, and make the garrison cough themselves out of the fort. The morals of the people down there must be improving, for it was only last week a correspondent of a Mobile paper proposed to poison our men. They like any way, it seems, better than fighting. The correspondent of the Register ought to be banished to Cayenne.--Beston Transcript, June 1.