On the way back from Virginia the shrewd spy ran into a Union General F.J. Milroy
who happened to have a $10,000 bounty on his head from the Confederates.


She told him the English invalid story and the general had his surgeon examine the spy lady. A talent that Lottie had possessed from a young child was to be able to throw her lower jaw out of joint with a horrible cracking sound.

She promptly gave the surgeon her act and she was on her merry way. As Lottie neared Jones Station, she heard rumors that two Confederate female spies were in custody and they were searching for a third. The two they had in custody were her mother and sister.

Lottie decided she was ready for her greatest scene ever. She was going to confront her old beau whom she had jilted at the altar. Yes siree, Old Button Burnside himself.

"There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage."
Aristotle