| Died: Near Bandon, Mrs. STONE, aged 43. This woman was, perhaps, the most remarkable heroine that this or any other age has produced; being married very young to a sergeant in a marching regiment, of the name STONE, she accompanied him, though she was rather of a small and delicate make, through most of the hardships our armies underwent in America during the last war; no consideration of fear could make her leave his side through nine engagements, in which her husband was concerned; she helped to carry him off wounded twice from the field of battle; and it is a fact that can be testified by living witnesses now in this city, that at the siege of Louisbough, at a time when many of our troops were killed, she supplied the living with powder cartridges of the dead, and animated the troops she was next to by her words and actions. Though a woman of the most surprising intrepidity, she was never known to be guilty of any conduct which could impeach her delicacy, or violate the modest demeanor of her sex. She was never known to drop a tear, but when departing her husband in death; and died the admiration and regret of all who knew her. |