![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | An unknown heroine; an historical episode of the war between the states - Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene), 1824-1900
The "unknown heroine" is Mrs. Van Metre of Clarke co., Va., who befriended Lieutenant Henry E. Bedell, 1st Vermont heavy artillery, wounded at the battle of o Opequan, Sept. 13, 1864, and deserted by his comrades. On Bedell's return North, Mrs. Van Metre accompanied him, and through the assistance of Secretary Stanton and others found her husband, a Conferederate soldier confined in a northern prison under an assumed name, and secured his release
Keywords: Bedell, Henry E; Van Metre, Elizabeth Keyser, d. 1925; United States. Army. Vermont Artillery Regiment, 1st (1862-1865); Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November)
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