The (Richmond)
Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1862.
Woman in Man's
Apparel.
--A young
female named Maria Underwood, who was put in Castle Godwin some months since for
coming here from Washington without any ostensible business, and who was
afterwards discharged from there, was again yesterday brought before Assistant
Provost Marshal Alexander, on an allegation which procured her recommitment
thither. It appeared that on Saturday Miss Underwood had presented herself in
the guise of a soldier at the camp of the Palmetto Sharpshooters. (Longstreet's
division,) and expressed her desire to enlist. She made a very creditable
looking soldier boy, and it is understood passed examination as such by one of
the Surgeons, but another (being more foxey) discovered the cheat, and kindly
admonished the party to get into more suitable habiliments. The intending
soldier, however, hung around the camp until yesterday, when she came to town.
Here being recognized by one of the Captains attached to the Palmetto regiment,
she was reported to the Assistant Provost Marshal, who directed her to be
brought before him, and sent her back to the Castle temporarily, for
safe-keeping. In this instance the conduct of the would be son of Mars is not
attributable to a love of adventure, but is regarded as the effect of the
tender passion--one of the men attached to the regiment being the object of
womanly solicitude.
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