Sunday, March 3, 2013
“unmistakable evidence of being a woman”
To pass as a man, Union soldier Frances Louisa Clayton, who enlisted with her husband in 1961, took up gambling, cigar-smoking, and swearing.
Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library
Review of They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil Warbrainpickings via: brainpickings
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