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Women Soldiers in Civil War Heroics Highlight Female Valor
The New York Times recounts numerous Civil War stories of women who fought in male disguises. Frances Hook Mary Owens and Pauline Cushman are among the notable figures cited for bravery, spy work, and battlefield action across Union and Confederate lines.
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Europe
Tomaszeff
Mary E. Walker
Doctor Walker
Frances Hook
Chicago
Shiloh
Chickamauga
Atlanta
Jefferson Davis
Frances
Davis
Frank Miller
Ohio
Camp Jackson
Camp Dennison
Camp Dennisons
Pennsylvania
Dennison
Morrow
Burke
Tenth Ohio
Frank Henderson
Frank
Ilinois
Illinois
Mary Owens
Danville
Mary
Brooklyn
N. Y
Hooker
Lookout Mountain
Fanny Wilson
Twenty-fourth
New Jersey
Low
Vicksburg
Charles Martin
Philadelphia
Seventeenth Minois
Reynolds
Annie Lillybridge
Detroit
Twenty-first Michigan
Pany
Pauline Cushman
Cleveland
Belle Lloyd
Stonewall Jackson
Mary Siezgle
Forty-fourth New York
Gettysburg
Schwartz
Jefferson City
New
York Times