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Axotiikr Fkmai.k Soldier.—The Ciu-Icinnati Enquirer gives the f'o'hnving at*, count of an interesting case before the Police Court ot lhat cily on Tuesday j i morning: ‘An apparently fine looking i voting man m soldier's clothes was • i brought before Judge Salliii on the serious I r| j charge of being a women. She gave l:er i j, . ^ name as llenry Hell, of the 1'ifiy-.* econd j » :Ohio Kegimtnf, and admitted, though in ; jj J masculine dress, that she was a woman, -'and when asked by tin* Court why she t enlisted 111 the army, she replied, ‘The Governor advertised for recruits without specifying whether they should be nnllt;» or female; she iiada brother in the sen ice utid she thought by entering it she might find him; she had been four months a soldier, and desired to continue one.’ The officers of the Pil'ty second give h *r an i excellent diameter, ai.d she was disci.ar ged. in the a ft ei noon she went up to e : Camp Dennison, in the hope of being j again permitted to join her company, but , ! that was denied her, And she returned to the eiiy with the determination to join her parents, who live in the vicinity of 1 Hamilton.afcc
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Huntington Democrat
Huntington, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 30, 1862
Page 2
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