The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]

determined woman.

‘ A day or two since there arrived in this a woman named Byser, who has made a after remarkable journey on foot from La Indiana, to Baltimore. Shortly after commencement of hostilities her husband the Twentieth Indiana Regiment, Col. which, after performing guard duty to the line of the Northern Central Railway, ordered to Cape Hatteras. In the mean Mrs. Byser, who had only been residing Indiana for a short time, determined to for Baltimore, with the hope of meeting husband. She accordingly started with intention of making the journey on foot, but a single dollar and a small basket She left on the 8th of September, succeeded, after passing through Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, in reaching here shore. She walked over three hundred miles of the route, and wore out three pairs of Her case was made known to the sion Relief Association, and she was treated and her wants supplied. There is a commissioned officer of the regiment now in the and he has promised her a passage to Point. She is a woman of slender frame, ligent, and does not complain much of a trials and difficulties on the road.

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