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American Heroines of Robbins Reef and a Civil War drummer girl
Female lighthouse keeper Kate Walker tended Robbins Reef light for thirty years saving as many as 75 lives and never letting the beacon fail. The article also reveals a dramatic Civil War tale of Anna Glad, a drummer girl in disguise whose father and General Grant shielded her secret for decades. An old orders in force note closes the piece.
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Kate
Kate Walker
Hobbins Reef
New York Bay
Germany
Sandy Hook
Jacob Walker
Captain Walker
Robbins Reef
Benjamin Harrison
Staten Island
New York City
Richard B. Morse
Jacob
Tom” Hunley
Tom Hunley
Jeremiah Hunley
Tom
General Grant
Anna Glad
Oakland
Calif
Anna
Grant
Anna Hunley
Western