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Nov. 5, 2005 West Virginia was a state with divided loyalties during the Civil War. It was a fight between brother and sometimes sisters. Mary was waved goodbye to her husband as he marched off with the Confederate Army. Her sister Katie fell in love with a young man. She knew him in the biblical sense before he left home to be a soldier for the Union cause. He did not have time to make an honest woman out of her. She found herself in a family way. Her family were Confederate Sympathizers. They reluctantly took in the child but Katie became an outcast. Katie had no alternative but to join a Union Army camp as a soiled dove practicing the world's oldest profession. Katie also performed other traditional female roles for the men such as cooking, laundry and other domestic services. Sometime she would disguise herself as a man and join the men in battle. This was the case in the Battle of St. Lewisburg. The fallen Union Soldiers including Katie were buried temporarily in a field to the right of the Midland Trail west of town. Some were later taken to their homes for permanent interment. Years later, the citizens requested that the government get the remaining Yankees out of their graveyard. They were dug up and taken to Arlington Cemetery. Katie was included in the group of Union Soldiers relocated to Arlington. Katie's young man returned to his hometown after the war. He was hoping to reunite with Katie. He was sad because Katie's whereabouts was unknown. Her widowed sister was raising her sister's and the Union Veteran's daughter. He moved the sister and the children including his daughter on the family farm. He married the sister and they and had several more children. It was a happy Union. Katie's Daughter married a lawyer. They produced a daughter whom they named Mary Kay after the Aunt and the Mother. Mary Kay married a senator. She played a leading role in the Women's Suffrage Movement. She even went to jail for the cause. Mary Kay was such a painful thorn in President Wilson's side that he finally urged congress to give women to the right to vote. Her grandmother, the Soiled Dove in Arlington Cemetery must be proud. ------------ About the author: Bonijean Isaacs is a freelance writer and Astrologer in West Virginia. Email: inez4liberty@gmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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