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HEROIC DEEDS OF SOUTHERN WOMEN.

By Mrs. K. D. Goodbar, of Charleston.
Mrs. Catherine Haynes, whose home is near Charleston,
Arkansas, is one of the oldest and most interesting of the few
remaining women in that section who worked, suffered and

endured, for the "Lost Cause."
She is living out her sunset years in the same old family

homestead, which was once the scene of so much stirring adven-

ture, and her recollections of those trying days are still fresh and

unobscured, though Time is laying his hand heavily now upon

her silvered locks.
Mrs. Haynes and her two daughters, Miss Lizzie and Miss

Sarah Jane, are known to have buried, or assisted in burying, at
least six, perhaps more of our fallen heroes, which was certainly
no mean service. She has often been heard to relate the follow-

ing incident

Six men belonging to Col. Mcintosh's regiment were

quietly eating breakfast in one of three small cottages, built
close to the Haynes' homestead. Mrs. Tobb, a Union woman,
Mrs. Eoberts, and Mrs. Knott, a widow, were the occupants of

the houses. The men were totally unsuspicious of any danger,
but were suddenly attacked by a small party, and three of them
were shot down in Mrs. Eoberts' yard, while the others escaped.

The names o*f the three soldiers killed were: Perkins, Tom
Jones, and Milton Hayes, all of them closely related to men

widely known in this section of the State. Mrs. Tobb ran alone
all the way to the Haynes' home to tell the awful news, and to

get assistance in caring for the bodies; There was not a man

left on the Haynes' place so Miss Lizzie and Miss Sarah Jane
accompanied Mrs. Tobb to the scene of the tragedy, determined
that not one of our brave boys should lack a decent burial so
long as there were tender, pitying hands to perform the last sad

duties.

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Nixon's graveyard was a full half-mile distant, but one of