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A Femalk Recruit.—Ex-Lieut. Samuel Douglas, while on his way to Quincy, last week, with recruits,discovered « volunteeramongst those on the cars, that he thought looked too “raw” for a soldier. An investigation was instituted, and the discovery made that the would-be soldier was not of the gender called for by Uncle Sam. She was going forward from Galesburg for the 124th regiment, though she had previously enlisted utJMonmouth for the 66th. As the recruiting officers are not authorizod to enlist female recruits she was handed over, much against her will, to the Sisters of Charity at Quincy, to be'returned home.— Her name is given as Mary Ann West, from near Burlingtou.—Monmouth t III.) Atlas.
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Burlington Daily Hawk Eye Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Mon, Mar 07, 1864
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