The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1863., [Electronic resource]

An Unfortunate marriage.

A paragraph appeared in our last paper stating that Mrs. Harris of Skipwith's landing, had married the Captain of the Queen of the West. The report is true, as we have it from one who knows. This lady was for a long time a resident of the parish of Pointe Coupee--her father, H. K. Moss, being a large sugar planter on the Bayon Fordoche. Her marriage with the Yankee officer was some what romantic. It seems that while the Federal were stationed around her house at Skipwith's landing, a difficulty occurred among them, and hearing the disturbance Mrs. H. went out to see what was the matter. In the melee one of the muskets went off and the ball passed through the lady's arm, wounding her severely. As no physician was to be found is the neighborhood, Mrs. Harris was taken on board one of the gunboats for treatment. There she met Capt. Sullivan, whom she afterwards married. Her matrimonial lies, however, was not of long duration. Heaven refused to smile upon such a union of discordant elements. In the fight with the "Queen," the Captain and husband of Mrs. Harris was among the first killed, and now she is a widow once more, perhaps to become the wife of another Yankee.