Page 34 - Arkansas Confederate Women

BRAVERY OF MISS LINNIE HUTCHINSON.

By Maj. W. F. Forbes, of BrinMey.

There is one sweet Southern girl, a cousin of mine, who has

long since passed to her reward, of whom I feel it a duty to
speak, Miss Linnie Hutchison. Her work did not pertain much

to Arkansas, but she was well known to H. C. Tipton, former
state treasurer, and others.

WHEN THE YANKEES TOOK MEMPHIS.

The first Confederate company of Horn Lake, Miss., where
we lived, was made up March 1, 1861, and we were ordered to

Pensacola, Fla. When the Yankees took Memphis my uncle's

fine home and farm became a regular raiding ground for them.

My uncle was 75 years old and Miss Linnie quite a girl. For 24

miles from Memphis to Hernando the Federals burned every-
thing combustible and not a cow, horse, hog or chicken was left.
They were three years in this work of devastation and all this
time Linnie Hutchinson was subjected to every possible insult
and injury.

ROUTED EIFTY YANKS.

The house was burned to the ground and the old man and

young girl took up their abode in a negro cabin. Miss Linnie
had practiced much with pistol and gun, as the necessity of being

able to defend herself dawned upon her young mind. When the

Feds would come into her yard, she stood, pistol in hand, ready
for anything. One day a company of fifty entered the yard and
began shooting every chicken in sight. Standing upon the cabin
porch and raising her gun, she declared that she would shoot the

man that fired the next shot at her chickens. They vacated the

yard without further ado. She saved one old horse, old Mike, the
buggy horse, but only after a fierce struggle in which several sol-
diers threw her round and round as she clung to the bridle until
blood gushed from her wrists.