The Resurrection of Hersa C.

More from the Rocky. On April 5 1865, the paper carried a notice of the wedding of Silas Soule and Hersa Coberly.



[RMN, April 5, 1865, p. 2.]

Kehler was the chaplain of the 1st Colorado. The notice is conspicuous in its blatant misspelling of the bride's name. Maybe the creative speller hopes to provide a little cover for his paper's having reported the same woman's death at the hands of marauding Indians in August of the preceding year:


[RMN, Special Edition, August 18, 1864.]