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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Co.,
Springfield, Ill: 1884


  279-280
                              CHAPTER VI
          REMINISCENSES, INCIDENTS AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTONS

                            BELLE MACOMBER.

        One of the earliest school teachers in the County was Miss BELLE
     MACOMBER, daughter of K. W. MACOMBER. She taught JAMES L. BYRD'S
     children at his own house in 1855.  Miss MACOMBER was married in 1860,
     in Lewis, to Wm. S. REYNOLDS, and afterwards removed to Illinois.
     She became quite famous during the war of the rebellion, and we ex-
     tract the following mention of her career from "Kirkland's Anecdotes
     and Incidents of the Rebellion:"
        "Governor YATES, of Illinois, paid a rather unusual but well
     merited compliment to Mrs. REYNOLDS, wife of Lieutenant Reynolds, of
     Company A, Seventeenth Illinois regiment, and a resident of that
     city.  Mrs. REYNOLDS accompanied her husband through the greater part
     of the campaign through which the Seventeenth passed, sharing with him
     the dangers and privations of a soldier's life. She was present at the
     battle of Pittsburg Landing, and like a ministering angel attended to
     the wants of as many of the wounded and dying soldiers as she could,
     thus winning the gratitude and esteem of the brave fellows by whom she
     was surrounded.  Governor YATES, hearing of her heroic and praise-
     worthy conduct, presented her with a commission as Major in the army,
     the document confering the well merited honor being made out with all
     due formality, and having attached the great seal of the State.
     Probably no lady in America ever before had such a distinguished
     military honor conferred upon her."

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