, to convey it to the enemy, and in every
manifestation of malice, petty spite and diabolical hatred against the
flag under which they had been reared, and its defenders, they attained
a bad pre-eminence over the evil spirits of their sex since the world
began. It is true that these were not the characteristics of all
Southern, disloyal women, but they were sufficiently common to make the
rebel women of the south the objects of scorn among the people of
enlightened nations. Many of these patriotic loyal women, of the
mountainous districts, rendered valuable aid to our escaping soldiers,
as well as to the Union scouts who were in many cases their own kinsmen.
Messrs. Richardson and Browne, the Tribune correspondents so long
imprisoned, have given due honor to one of this class, "the nameless
heroine" as they call her, Miss Melvina Stevens, a young and beautiful
girl who from the age of fourteen had guided escaping Union prisoners
past the most dangerous of the rebel garrisons and outposts, on the
borders of North Carolina and East Tennessee, at the risk of her liberty
and life, solely from her devotion to the national cause. The
mountainous regions of East Tennessee, Northern Alabama and Northern
Georgia were the home of many of these loyal and energetic Union
women--women, who in the face of privation, persecution, death and
sometimes outrages worse than death, kept up the courage and patriotic
ardor of their husbands, brothers and lovers, and whose lofty
self-sacrificing courage no rebel cruelties or indignities could weaken
or abate.

MISS HETTY A. JONES.[N]

[Footnote N: The sketch of Miss Jones belonged appropriately in Part II.
but the materials for it were not received till that part of the work
was printed, and we are therefore under the necessity of inserting it
here.]

Among the thousands of noble women who devoted their time and services
to the cause of our suffering soldiers during the rebellion there were
few who sacrificed more of comfort, money or health, than Miss Hetty A.
Jones of Roxborough, in the city of Philadelphia. She was a daughter of
the late Rev. Horatio Gates Jones, D.D., for many years pastor of the
Lower Merion Baptist Church, and a sister of the Hon. J. Richter Jones,
who was Colonel of the Fifty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers,
and who was killed at the head of his regiment, near Newbern, N. C., in
May, 1863, and grand-daughter of Rev. Dr. David Jones, a revolutionary
c