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X3ie Heroine of a QovenOne of the most extraordinary creatures that ?s or dived in any age (says a Shica-,r0 paper) “ is-now a.'priboucr iu the Central Police Station. -John Harris, alias Fans ie Harris, is the individual in question Three -wars ago, Fannie Harris was a resident of'Lafayette, Indiana, and was engaged to he married to a man in. that citv. She was disappointed in her love, and, in desperation, reoolvcd to enlist as a soldier. Her resolution was carried out most effectually. Before enlisting she was subject to the most rigid examination , bv the-army surgeon, and was event stripped of her apparel, but, by means af ex-! cellent artificial contrivances, she succeed-' ed in deceiving the keen, eyes of her inspectors and was musfcarsd into she service. in duo form,It i*. unnecessary to-follow her throughall of her adventures and suffering, b-ut-fice to say, she has fought in a dozen battles and her delicate frame has-been riddled with bullets. A miuie ball in her rmhbldp, a shell wound just above the knee, three bullets :a her legs, and a frightful wound in the spine—these arc some of the souvenirs of a three years bloody campaign that arc borne to-day by this American Joan d’Arc over whose head only eighteen years have passed. She was present at th-e battle of Bull Run, and wears,a watch wdr.ich sho captured on that ill starred field. Morethan two years she has been u drummer in her regiment— the One Hundred and Twelfth.—and sho states that the titer in the band to which she belonged was abfO a woman.
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Janesville Weekly Gazette
Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Nov 04, 1864
Page 5
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PA, USA 09 Sep 2017
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