Sometimes while doing research an odd newspaper account comes to light such as this one. I apologize beforehand if this topic or event has been covered in the past.

Taken from the newspaper "Daily Democrat" a Northern bias Louisville, Kentucky newspaper. Dated April 20, 1862

"In the midst of the scene of suffering and death, a woman on board the steamer "Empress", from Pittsburg Landing, the wife of a missing soldier who was in the fight at Pittsburg, gave birth to a to a female infant. The woman accompanied or closely followed her husband to Pittsburg, and on the second day of the fight, while the conflict was raging around her, was engaged in searching for him on the battlefield. While thus employed she received a gunshot wound --a flesh wound only-- in the breast. Failing at last to find her husband, in despair she took passage on the "Empress". Her child received the name of the steamer. The missing father is said to be a Polander or Norwegian, with a long name, which our information find it impossible to remember. "

This story originally was printed in the "Saint Louis, Democrat" on April 19, 1862.