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» Itll It in a mechil-ool«notmo-pertJbaxto/i Argus.iFemale Recruits.—*A Washington correspondent says the official records of (lie mil-ltury authorities in that city show that up. wards of one hundred and fifty female recruits have been discovered, end made to resume the garments of their sc*. It is . supposed that nearly all of these were in I collusion with men who were examined by 1 lous J the surgeons and cccepLed, after which the « t of ! fair one* substituted themselves and came 1 j for | on to the war. Curiously enough, over sev-am- j enty of these martini demoiselles, when tlieir de- sex was discovered, were acting as officers’ c terranls. In one regiment tliere were sev- « enteon officers’ servants, in blue blouses t and pftuts, who had to be clothed in calico lt;and crinoline. Even a general, who has, j icco won many laurels in the war, hod a band-, d tome, fresh-looking ‘'dotailed man” acting ■ os his clerk, whose real name turned out to 1ere.th ►un-thcooo.the be Mary Jane G , and who has parents!The j in Trenton who are estimable member* of ‘to j society. She said in excuse that she i “wanted to see the world/' and we think ' she has seen it to a considerable extent.— •ced But wearers of brass coats and blue buttonsthe will fascinate the fair sex—’tie a way they Bal-, have the wide-world over.aid,
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Gettysburg Compiler
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, May 02, 1864
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