As the Confederate color-bearer passed the basement window, from which Alice was watching the fighting, he was shot down. Alice sprang from the cellar, caught up the flag and waved it over her head. Colonel Samuel G. Earle, of the Third Arkansas Regiment, saw her and shouted, "Boys a woman has your flag". Upon seeing this heroic action from one of their women, the Rebels raised a great battle cry and drove the Yankees back. While Alice held the flag, a bombshell fell within a few feet, throwing dirt all over her. Fortunately, the shell did not explode. One of the soldiers pushed her back into the cellar.
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"We ever paid fond tribute
to a heroine at Thompson's Station whose name and
deed should be of foremost record. I refer to Miss
Alice Thompson. She was seventeen at the time of
the battle there, March 4, 1863. Van Dorn and Forrest
fought Colburn's Indiana Brigade, and captured
it. Miss Alice was at the residence of Lieut, Banks.
The Third Arkansas, advancing through the yard, lost
their colonel [Earle] and color bearer, and the regiment
was thrown in disorder. Miss Alice Thompson
rushed out, raised the flag, and led the regiment to
victory. The enemy lauded her action. Our comrades
who know of it desire her deserved prominence
in history. Maj. Aiken, of Spring Hill, sends her picture
to be placed in the Veteran. She deserves record
along with Emma Sansom and other heroines."

CONFEDERATE VETERAN Volume # VIII No 6, 1900, pp.262/4

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