A Brave Girl--The Richmond correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, has the following:

Speaking of Vicksburg, I give you an instance of female heroism recorded in a letter from a friend, who reached the "City of Hills" too late to take an active part in its defense. He is an officer of high character and undoubted veracity. He says:

"I must tell you of a feat performed by a young girl, as told me by one who saw it, on the day of the hardest fight, Her brother belonged to one of the batteries, and hearing that he was wounded, she started out alone and on foot for the battlefield; and against the remonstrances of all who saw her, walked along the line of entrenchments and across an open field swept by a murderous fire of musketry, grape and canister, as if she going to church to show off her new bonnet, to the point where his battery was. You can imagine that the men whom she passed did not fight the worse for the sight."

The Western Democrat (Charlotte, NC) 17 Feb 1863
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