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lne Cushman, an actress, was captured in a man's uniform by the Confederates and was about to be hanged as a spy when her sex was discovered.Bridget Danvers served as nurse, hospital steward, surgeon and private soldier. A woman known to her comrades in arms as Frank Thompson, d t disguised as an orderly, carried messages through shot and shell at the battle of Fredericksburg. Her identity was not discovered until twenty years after, when she applied for 'and received a pension.Tlio wife of Captain Reynolds, Company A, Seventeenth HJinoi3 regiment, refused to be parted from her husband where he was called Into action and rode at his side Sn male attire through an entire campaign. On the field after a conflict she would go about ministering to the wonded and was called the angol of the regiment. She is said to have received a commission as a major in the army.Another devoted wife who enlisted with her husband was Mary Owens of Danville, Da. She saw' her husband killed at her side in battle and in the next engagement she herself was wounded. Her discharge papers bore this tribute from her commanding officer: ”A more faithful soldier never shouldered a musket.”The courage of women in battle Is not a development of modern times. Women In -thousands fought in the French revolution. After the fall of the Baatile a whole battalion of women took up arms calling themselves The Amazons. Napoleon pensioned one woman soldier and bestowed the Legion of Honor on another. Joan of Arc's military achievements were the glory of the middle ages. Mother Ross was a squadron leader of the Scotch Greys under Marlborough at the battle of Blenheim. Mary Dixon fought for
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 03, 1917
Page 8
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