In September 19th, 1841, the Army of the North was defeated by Rosas. Its head man , Juan Lavalle escaped with the soldiers he could meet heading to the north. He was very sick and stopped in Salta.
There, he fell in love with a young woman 28 years old, "Damasita Boedo", daughter of the Colonel José Francisco Boedo, and the niece of Doctor Mariano, congressman of the Independence.
Damasita had a blonde hair combed on "bandeau", and beautiful blue eyes cared with long black eyelashes, a fleshy and small mouth, and all his bright head held by a long neck well settled on her shoulders.
Somebody said that she captivated by "her mastery in the use of the skirts".
The young woman left all and went with Lavalle to Jujuy. They were together that morning in october 9th, when a bullet shooted from the street through the door of the house where they got warm, targeted on the face of Lavalle and killed him Instantly.
The soldiers resolved to cross the frontier to Bolivia carrying the remains of his chief.
General Pedernera offered a shooting guard for Damasita going back to Salta.
      - "Mr General, when a young woman of my social class loses her honor, can not come back to her country anymore; Gave me a mule to go ahead, and to live and die with the help of God".
It was her answer.  So, she departed with the soldiers. She lived in Chuquisaca, La Paz, Coquimbo and Lima, dedicated to be a teacher, and even she tried to be a nun, but she could not because of her health.
Another historian told that she was the lover of Guillermo Billinghurst, in Bolivia, and then they went to Chile, where she lived confortbly. Some day she came back to Salta where she dazzled with her expensive dresses and her silk scarves, with which she walked on the streets, she waved on the walk paths, and she knelt in the churchs. Her nice beauty even lighted. Somebody believes she died in Chile, onother one states that she died in Salta in september 5th, 1880.