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Female Soldier*.That wo liuve hud, nuw jind then, instan-cos in which girl soldiers have boon found in the ranks, cuduring all the trials and privations of the field, thero is no doubt, but the following statement of the bravery and patriotism dispfliyed by a young Pennsylvania girl eclipses all others. The girl in qucstioii has been serving in the army for near u year, under the ussutued uaino of Frank Martin, and is still rctuiued, though her disguise has been delected u second time, and is, at present, suid to bo on duty at Louisville. Sho was boru near llriatol, Pa., and her parents reside iu Allegheny city, where she was raised. Thoy are highly respectable people, un% in very |»ood circumstances. She wys sent to the Convent in Wheeling, Virginia, at the age of twelve years, whore she remained' until the breaking out of the war, having acquired a superior education and all the uo-compiialmicut* of moduru usage. Slto visited home after leaving the convent, and, after taking leave of her parents, proceeded to this city in July last, with the design of enlisting iu the 2d East Tennessee Cavalry, which she accomplished, and accompanied the Army of the Cumberland to Nashville. She was in the thickest of the fight at M u r frees boro’, and was severely wounded iu the shoulder, but fought gallantly, and waded Stone river into Murfreesboro' on the memorable Sunday on wbiuh our forg($ j were driven hack. She had her wound i dressed, and here her sex was disclosed, andlieu. Jtoaccruns tuado acquainted with the j ) fact. She was accordingly uiustorcijl out of fservice, notwithstanding her earliest ontrea , ty to he allowed to serve the cause she loved so well. The general was very favorably
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Gettysburg Adams Sentinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Jun 09, 1863
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