| Record ID | marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part02.utf8:113824454:1216 |
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008 720912s1894 xx 000 0 eng
010 $a 13022925
035 $a(OCoLC)404570
040 $aDLC$cOKentU$dDLC
050 00 $aE533.7$b1st Ch
100 1 $aChittenden, L. E.$q(Lucius Eugene),$d1824-1900.
245 13 $aAn unknown heroine;$ban historical episode of the war between the states,$cby L. E. Chittenden.
260 $aNew York,$bG. H. Richmond & co.,$c1894.
300 $a314 p.$billus.$c19 cm.
500 $aThe "unknown heroine" is Mrs. Van Metre of Clarke co., Va., who befriended Lieutenant Henry E. Bedell, 1st Vermont heavy artillery, wounded at the battle of o ́Opequan, Sept. 13, 1864, and deserted by his comrades. On Bedell's return North, Mrs. Van Metre accompanied him, and through the assistance of Secretary Stanton and others found her husband, a Conferederate soldier confined in a northern prison under an assumed name, and secured his release.
600 10 $aBedell, Henry E.
600 10 $aVan Metre, Elizabeth (Keyser)
650 0 $aVermont artillery. 1st regt., 1862-1865.
650 0 $aShenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November)