extraordinary truth about this soldier, that she was a woman serving among the ranks of men. while it was illegal for women to dress as men and enlist in either army hundreds, possibly more, did. we do not know the exact number. if a woman was successful she was not caught, and was able to slip back into civilian life after serving her country. in the decades after the war, the general number of women soldiers in the union army alone was estimated to be slightly less than 400, a number that was thought to be too low. in her words, i am convinced a larger number of women disguised him themselves for one cause or another than was dreamed of. two historians in their research on the women soldiers of the civil war document about 250 individual women soldiers, and they use a variety of documents. they used military documents, the letters and diaries of soldiers and hospital personnel, and also newspaper accounts from the day. richard hall, another modern scholar, in his publicat
the civil next on war, historical interpreters tell stories of some of the women who disguised themselves as young men and fought in the civil war. they outline how and why these women disguised themselves, what battles they fought in, and how they were discovered. the frederick county civil war roundtable posted this hour and 15 minute program. in 1911, nearly 60 years after the end of the civil war, a small and elderly civil war veteran of the 95th illinois was accidentally struck by an automobile while shoveling debris from the driveway. was summoned,r and in the process of setting the broken bone in the thigh, it was discovered that the civil war veteran was a she, and not a he. were it not for this automobile accident, we would not know the extraordinary truth about this soldier, that she was a woman serving among the ranks of men. while it was illegal for women to dress as men and enlist in either army, hundreds, possibly more, did. we do not know the exact number. if
LOCK HAVEN The Clinton County Board of Commissioners honored nearly 30 local students for their participation in the county’s General Election in Novem
MILL HALL Three newcomers and two incumbents have been elected to represent five regions within the Keystone Central School District. This includes Region