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I X«I « « —----F. *. iht Louiv;iio Journal.;; A Female Soldier from l II unlink ton Ind.i Marv Ellen Wise, the bold soldier boyi • w. that turned out to be a woman, states thei| Nashville Times, of Tuesday, 4,will! leave this city to dav lor her home in «- ! • •‘ Huntington County, Indiana, She hasl been in the array nearly two vears, has• * . * •. , been in six b ittles and many skirmishes, rj | 1ms carried her musket and punished! bard-tack like a veteran, She ‘*ave usa i ^e • a little out line of her history, saying sho 1 would be eighteen next February. She** me \ enlisted in April, 1861, in consequence . 1 of a home made unpleasant by a step-(. mother, and joined company I, in the ^ . 34th Indiana, in which company she has . ! had a brother, With the regiment she h i went to Pittsburg Landing, took part in n: the battle of Shiloh, was on Corinth’s | bloody field, but escaped unhurt them, to be severely wounded at Stone River,«rbv a musket ball, in the side. From •,, | there by hospital boat to Louisville,, | where she went into a hospital and her ;e | sex discovered the first time the wound e | was dressed. After weary months ol r. | pain, she wss once more well and was \m j sent home, but she, feeling it was no. n 1 home, staid only a week in the neighlror-~ | hood, and went to Indianapolis, where ! she re-enlisted in company A, of the j. | 65th Wisconsin. On her way here with re ! the regiment she way recognized by oneI mP□
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Logansport Journal
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, May 21, 1864
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