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Feui£ie Soldiers.A. Washington correspondent says the official tecords of the military authorities in that city shows that upwards -f one hundred and fifty female .recruits have-been discovered and made co resume the garmeuts of their sex. It is supposed that nearly all these were in collusion with men who were examined by the surgeons and accepted- after which the fair ones submitted themselves and went to the wars ' Curiously enough, over seventy of these martial demoiselles, when their sex was discovered, were acting as officer’s servants In one regiment there were seventeen officer's servantsKin blue blouses ami pants, who had to be clothed in calico, and crinoline. Even a General who had woe m ny laurels in war, had a handsome, fresh looking “detailed man’' acting as his clerk, whose real nameturned out to be Mary Jane G-, and whohas parents in Trenton, who are estimablemembers of society She said she : wanted to see the world.7'
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Alexandria Virginia State Journal
Alexandria, Virginia, US
Sat, Jun 25, 1864
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