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Female Soldiers —The Louisville Journal oontalr* the following notiors of female soldiers, whose real sex has been recently discovered. and whose A ms ion ian aspirations hare been gratified by an army service of three yean:A airl lntne uniform of the United State* army w*a arrested in (Cincinnati, on Sunday night on a charge of vagrancy. She called heraeTf Sophia Thompson, and aald she had served three years in the 69th O. V. L She waa bsfore the Polioe (Court on Monday morning, at which time her case was taken under advisement. Last Monday a person called Joseph Davidson was presented, wno enlisted in the Veteran Army Onrps, after shoeing adischarge, which stated th«t the bearer had alsoHh Oserved three years In the 69th O. V I During the examination it waa discovered that this wool 1-be soldier was of the female sex and tbit her father had been killed by her side at GhicKmaug*. The de sorintiveroll eeeirrd to have been msde fir her, and so far as oculd be learned there was no reason why she should net join Hancock’s corps, save the unf.-r-tucate fact that sh« was a wc man It is somewhat extraordinary that two females sbouid have passed thus far through the war in the same regiment without detection, and still more singular that both detection* sbruld take plsoe cn ths same day. These girls were 18 aid 20 years of ue, and one of them was quite good locking, with !a»ire grey eyes, light hair, worn after the fashion lt;f males with a figure to® di licate fcr a nan, and a lace too much bronsed for a weman. GrantD g their story to bs true as far as told, the histaiy of the motives that induced these heroines to enl st, and kept them so long in the army, would doubtless prove quite interesting.Barbarism us Conkf cticut.—A cor-af ikA II ..if., a a n l _
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Philadelphia Age
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Feb 27, 1865
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