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Incident of Col Baker's Lifes and the Brave Female Soldier
Readable tale recounts Col Baker's California regiment arrival in Philadelphia near the Continental Hotel. A private, revealed as Ellen LeClerc, a disguised woman, saved the colonel's body at Ball’s Bluff, then told a moving romance about love, exile, and devotion, ending with her grave confession and a secret keepsake.
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Col Baker
California
Philadelphia
New York
Gane Nental Hotel
Col. Baker
San
Steteon
Fubber
Gowneaiea
Ball's Bluff
Edward
Bebel
Comerade
Lam
Tim
Rilen LeClerc
Illinois
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Mexico
Atlantic
Pacific
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Eaward
Ling
Christs
Col. Esker
Ellen LeClerc
Potomac
Harrison’s Island
Poplar Woods
Thad
Fortress Monroe
Trace
Norfolk
Richmond
Rhode Island
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Old Point
Caok Millward
Ghia
Marshall Davis
Baltimore
Davis
Brigham
Braxiey
Marshall Brigham
Brazle
Mi’Phail
Jefferson Davis
Septimus Brown
Doctor Brown
Fort McHenry
Raballion
Europe