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%COMRADE OF FAMOUS WOMAN SOLDIER HEREServed in Snmo Regiment With “Al« bei't Cwhler. Woman Soldier oL’ the Civil War.lt;H. ?. Schuyler, 1321* Sherman street, mado known tills morning that he was a comrade o? the famousj •'Albert” Cashier, the woman, who masqueraded as a man and served iv. the army during the civil war. Albert'1 Cashier the woman soldier served during the civil war in Con 1/nny G, Of the Fifty-Ninth Illinois Infantry. She participated la some of the bloodiest 'battles .of the civil war while in General Grant’s army, and it was not until after she went to a soldiers home at Quincy, 111., that her sex was discovered by a. sui-.ceon of that institution. Mr, Schuyler stated that although several women masqueraded as men in the sumo regiment during the war they were discovered and sent home, no j one suspected Albert” Cashier,
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Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Mon, Apr 06, 1914
Page 10
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