Elizabeth
Carraway Howland's hometown, New Bern in Craven County, NC was captured
by Union forces in March 1862, but Elizabeth's staunch Confederate
heart could never be subdued.
She had studied medicine with her
father, and went to work doctoring Rebel soldiers who were sick with
Yellow Fever who had been taken prisoner in New Bern. Elizabeth used her
knowledge of home-made medications to nurse all her patients back to
health, while Union doctors weren't as successful. Elizabeth also used her access to the imprisoned Confederates to smuggle in food and clothes to them.
But she made an even more daring contribution to the Confederate cause.
Elizabeth took the specifications of the Union fortification at New
Bern, rolled them into small paper cones and slipped them inside the
hollow bone of a ham. She then instructed her daughter and son to take
the ham and a bouquet of flowers down the river to Confederate
authorities. When the Captain of a Federal gunboat stopped the children,
Elizabeth's daughter presented him with the flowers, and they were
allowed to pass without being searched.
Always i want to be, tangled up in you. finding that one thing, that makes us collide like the beautiful sun, and the neverending horizon..Love & Hugs~Richard
Sweetness - Keep warm and snuggled up - Burr it's cold outside - Have a great day . Kisses of my heart Bianca 
