Confederate Woman Captured at Charles City Courthouse

On our way to Williamsburg back in July, we decided to make a spontaneous side trip to Charles City. I knew there was a Confederate woman captured there during a raid in December, 1863, and wanted to see if anything still existed. There were a few things including the courthouse, a monument to the Confederate soldiers, and, much to my surprise and delight, this plaque mentioning the captured woman! The reference comes from Bradney Griffin, an assistant surgeon with the 1st NY Mounted Rifles. Part of the letter to his father contained, "Among the prisoners was a female soldier, a woman of about 20 years. She had male attire, and used her rifle against us, as well as the rest. She has been in several engagements, Bull Run, Chancellorsville, etc." (Photo by Mark Hidlebaugh; Griffin letter mentioned in Blanton and Cook "They Fought Like Demons" p. 18 and also found in a New York Times article from 2000 

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/12/weekinreview/word-for-word-letters-home-the-myriad-ways-in-which-war-has-been-hell.html?src=pm&pagewanted=1