Nashville (Tenn.) Daily Union US
A Long Tramp.
A young woman named Elizabeth Ramsey arrived here last night from Washington county, Arkansas, having, like many others, been driven from her home by the guerrillas. Her father and mother dead, and her two brothers (the only remaining members of the family besides herself) being in Price’s army, she was left alone, at the mercy of every marauding band that came along. In this situation she conceived the desperate idea of making her way to an uncle in Chicago. She accordingly, with six dollars and a half in her purse, started on her journey. Shortly after leaving home, she was stopped by a party of guerrillas, who, finding that she was on her way “North,” robbed her of her money, and treated her in the harshest manner. She informed us that she sometimes suffered from hunger, but occasionally met with generous-hearted persons on the road, who deeply sympathized with her, and relieved her more pressing wants. The wandering exile finally succeeded in getting beyond danger, and reaching the Pacific railroad, over which she arrived last night. With the exception of the trip by railroad, the whole of the distance from Washington county, Arkansas, was accomplished on foot.

The poor creature appeared this morning at the Central Police Station, and was much prostrated by her long and tedious tramp. She was miserably clad, and is afflicted with weak eyes. She tells a clear, straightforward story concerning her troubles, and evidently is an intelligent girl. Her two brothers, now in the rebel army, are named Frank and John, and are aged respectively fifteen and seventeen years.

She is now properly cared for at the Central Police Station, and will remain there until arrangements are made to send her to her relatives in Chicago.—St. Louis Eve. News, 20th.*

* On the 1860 Census for Washington County, Elizabeth Ramsey, born 1842 in Kentucky, is listed as living in West Fork Township with Margaret Ramsey, born 1800 in North Carolina. The distance from West Fork to the railhead at Rolla, Missouri is about 250 miles.

Francis M.(AKA Frank) and John Ramsey are listed as having enlisted in Bentonville on the 10th of September, 1861 in Company A of McRae’s Battalion of Arkansas Infantry, which was later consolidated into the 15th (Northwest) Arkansas Infantry. Frank was discharged on the 17th of September. 1862, John died in the General Hospital at Enterprise, Mississippi in October of the same year. Frank and John are not listed as living in either Washington or Benton counties in 1860. This is the only information I can find and I cannot verify that these are the same people mentioned in the article.