Mrs. Collis was the companion of her husband during his American Civil War service. He raised a company of Zouaves at the outbreak of the war, which was later a

A Woman's War Record is the story of Septima Collis, a woman whose family was torn between the Confederacy and the Union.

I have no hesitation in calling what I am about to write a “war record,” for my life was “twice in jeopardy,” as will be seen later on, and I served fai