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Jl. hedger.•. Female Soldiery• • «. • ‘T- • -There seems.to he a strong penc/iarU on the part of the ‘^patriotic women of America,” as Artemus Ward or Orpheus C. Kerr would say, to get into soldier clothes. In a private letter from Wheeling, Va., we have the following account of two or three of the would-be Amazons: . .Ten deserters -were brought in this i morning. ; Among them was a female j named Mary Jane Prater, dressed in sol-.jdier clothes. She joined the 82d Ohio about seven months ' ago, under the assumed name of John Crocket. She was i detected a few (lavs since near Charleston,Va., and sent to (his place. She was raised at Grallipolis, and is an orphan.There was another female brought in about a month ago,, who was captured in company with a number of Jenkins’ men. She had been in the rebel army over a year, and was rigged out in cavalry uniform. Her sex was not known until she ■was brought here. She gave herself- the name of Harry Fitzallen;'her true name is Marian McKenzie.. Sill another female was arrested here a since as a spy. —; ; few days
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Sullivan Democrat
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 12, 1863
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