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Numerous women enlisted and fought as men in theAmerican Civil War.

HistorianElizabeth D. Leonard writes that, according to various estimates, between five hundred and one thousand women enlisted as soldiers on both sides of the war, disguised as men.^[1]

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Mollie Bean served with theConfederate Army under the name Melvin Bean. She was captured by the Union Army in February 1865 near Richmond, Virginia.^[1]^: 222^[2]
Mary and Molly Bell, cousins who both served with the Confederate Army.
Malinda Blalock (1842 – 1901 or 1903) was a female soldier who fought on both sides during the Civil War. She followed her husband and joined the26th North Carolina Regiment of theConfederate Army, disguising herself as a young man and calling herself Samuel Blalock. The couple eventually escaped across Confederate lines and joined the Union partisans in the Appalachian mountains of western North Carolina.^[3]^: 132^[4]^: 50-54
Disguised as a man,Florena Budwin (1844–1865) enlisted in the Union Army in Philadelphia with her husband, an artillery captain.^[5]^: 148 Captured by the Confederacy in 1864, she was confined at the notoriously brutalAndersonville Prison, and the transferred toFlorence Stockade.^[6]^: 79–80 Her status was discovered while under treatment for pneumonia, and she died, age 20.^[4]^: 9–10
Mary Burns (1821–1863), or John Burns, was an American woman who disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the war.^[7] She enlisted in the7th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in order not to be parted from her lover, who was in the same regiment.^[6]^{: 31, 124}

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Albert Cashier (1843–1915) was Irish-born and served three years in the Union Army as a male soldier. Cashier lived the next fifty years as a man. Cashier's regiment was part of theArmy of the Tennessee underUlysses S. Grant and fought in approximately forty battles,^[8] including theSiege of Vicksburg.^[9] During this campaign, Cashier was captured while performing reconnaissance,^[10]^: 55 but managed to escape and return to the regiment.

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Frances Clayton in uniform. From the collection of theMinnesota Historical Society.

Frances Clayton (c. 1830–after 1863) enlisted in the Union Army under the name Jack Williams, along with her husband. Clayton's exploits became known after the war, and there is some contradictory information in reports^[6]^{: 150–151} but most accounts say they enlisted in a Missouri unit, despite being from Minnesota. Clayton is said to have fought in 18 battles^[10]^: 66 including Shiloh,^[2]^: 164Stones River,^[10]^: 66 andFort Donelson where she was wounded.^[6]^{: 150–151}
Sarah Collins was a 16-year-old schoolgirl fromLake Mills, Wisconsin^[11] who enlisted as a soldier in a Wisconsin regiment with her brother. Although she disguised herself as a man by cutting off her hair and donned men's clothing, her sex was suspected because of how she put on her shoes and socks.^[6]^{: 33, 110} She was discovered to be female before her regiment left for the front.
At the age of fourteen,Lizzie Compton enlisted in the army, falsifying her age and changing her name.^[4]^: 62–63 Compton saw considerable action during the war, serving in seven differentregiments, holding the record for the most reenlistments.^[4]^: 62–63 While being treated for injuries after a riding incident, the doctor revealed her status as a woman, and she was discharged.^[4]^: 62–63 In her eighteen months in the army,^[5]^[12] she served in three cavalry units and two infantry. She fought at theBattle of Antietam and was wounded, and at theBattle of Gettysburg, where she was wounded again and discharged, and fought several other battles as well.^[4]^: 62–63
Catherine E. Davidson fought at Antietam, and saw her lover wounded in the battle.^[13]

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Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841–1898) served with theUnion Army disguised as a man named Frank Thompson.
Nellie Graves was a female soldier who served in secret as a man in the Union Army alongside her close friendFanny Wilson. Both saw action at the battles ofFredericksburg andChancellorsville. Their status as women was discovered while they were being treated for an illness, and both were discharged.^[4]^: 56^[6]
Mary Jane Green
Better known as "Mountain Charley",Elsa Jane Forest Guerin published a memoir about her life, purporting to relate her "thirteen years in male attire"; it was published in Iowa in 1861.^[14] She enlisted in the Union Army in Iowa as "Charles Hatfield", she spied on the Confederates and attained the rank of first lieutenant.^[15]
Frances Hook
Sophronia Smith Hunt (1846–1928) was an American woman who disguised herself as a man and secretly served as a soldier in the Union Army.^[16]^{[self-published source]}^{[better source needed]}^[17]^[18] Her first soldier husband died after he was wounded at theBattle of Jenkins' Ferry. They served in the29th Iowa Infantry Regiment.^[16]

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Maria Lewis, also known as George Harris, was a soldier in the Union army and former slave who gained distinction in the Eighth New York Cavalry.^[19]
Annie Lillybridge was from Detroit, and enlisted in the21st Michigan Infantry Regiment to be near her fiancé. She hid her identity from everyone, including even him until she was wounded and discharged after being discovered.^[13]
Elizabeth A. Niles (1842 - 1920) served in the Union Army. After her husband enlisted in the14th Vermont Infantry^[20] she joined him,^[21] and participated in numerous battles, includingFirst Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg.^[4] She remained undetected, and mustered out in September 1864, with her husband.^[4]
Mary Owens enlisted with her husband in the 9th Cavalry in Pennsylvania, posing as his brother.^[6]^: 32, 44^[22] After he died in combat, Owens remained for an additional eighteen months,^[6]^: 44^[22] fought three battles, and was wounded in each.^[6]^: 98
Frances Elizabeth Quinn was an Irish-born Union Army soldier who fought in both the infantry and cavalry. She enlisted over five separate times throughout the war and the country, assuming the name Frank Miller, and other names. Each time she was eventually discovered to be a woman and discharged from the military. In Alabama, she was captured by the Confederate Army and force-marched to Atlanta, where she was shot during an escape attempt.^[23]^[6]^: 59

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Loreta Janeta Velazquez a.k.a. "Lieutenant Harry Buford" (June 26, 1842 –c. 1897) – A Cuban woman who donned Confederate garb and served as a Confederate officer and spy during the war.[24]^[25]
Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (1843–1864) served with the Union Army under the alias of Lyons Wakeman and Edwin R. Wakeman. Her letters remain one of the few surviving primary accounts of female soldiers in the American Civil War.^[26]^[27]
Laura J. Williams was a woman who disguised herself as a man and used the alias Lt. Henry Benford in order to raise and lead a company ofTexas Confederates. She and the company participated in the Battle of Shiloh.^[28]^[29]
Fanny Wilson enlisted as a soldier in the Union Army along with her close friendNellie Graves.^[6] They served in the defense of Washington, D.C. until December 1862, when they participated in the Battle of Fredericksburg.^[4]^{[page needed]} After being treated for an illness, their sex was discovered and they were discharged. After some time as a civilian, Wilson joined the3rd Illinois Cavalry, and was wounded at theBattle of Vicksburg. She recovered and continued on with her regiment.^[4]^{[page needed]} She was discharged after being discovered in August 1863.

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A dismounted soldier of the5th West Virginia cavalry, who refused to take cover from Confederate artillery bombardment until the nearby Col. Hayes (future presidentRutherford B. Hayes, then commanding an infantry regiment) did so during an engagement nearNew River, after thebattle of Cloyd Mountain, was mortally wounded by an artillery shell. The soldiers were shocked to discover this soldier was female while attempting to treat the wounds.^[30]
Female Confederate soldier belonging to a Louisiana regiment, described by the British colonelArthur Fremantle, who travelled through the Confederacy for over 3 months in 1863 as awar tourist. He wrote; "A goodish-looking woman was pointed out to in my car as having served as a private soldier in the battles ofPerryville andMurfreesboro. Several men in my car had served with her in a Louisianian regiment, and they said she had been turned out a short time since for her bad and immoral conduct. They told me that her sex was notorious to all the regiment, but no notice had been taken of it so long as she conducted herself properly. They also said that she was not the only representative of the female sex in the ranks. When I saw her she wore a soldier's hat and coat, but had resumed her petticoats."^[31]
Female union soldier captured during a Confederate cavalry raid on theArmy of Virginia's headquarters at Cattlet's Station on August 21, 1862, during theNorthern Virginia Campaign. Described by aPrussian soldier serving withJ.E.B Stuart's cavalry in the confederacy; "There was a good deal of merriment among the young staff-officers at headquarters concerning one of ourCatlett's Station prisoners, whom I had taken over with me under charge of a courier for further instructions - and who, just as we were sending off the main body of these prisoners to Richmond, had been discovered to be a good-looking woman in full Federal uniform. In order that she might follow to the field her warlike lord, she had enlisted as a private soldier in the same company with him, and now claimed to be excepted from the rest of the prisoners as a privilege of her sex. It was decided, however, that this modernJeanne d'Arc must share the fate of her comrades for the present, and further decision in the case was left to the Richmond authorities."^[32]

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^^a ^bLeonard, Elizabeth D. (1999).All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. pp. 165,310–311.ISBN 978-0-393-04712-7.OCLC 40543151.
^^a ^bHall, Richard (2006).Women on the Civil War Battlefront. Modern war studies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. p. 150.ISBN 978-0-7006-1437-0.OCLC 645828327.
^Mays, Gwen Thomas (3 December 2007)."Blalock, Malinda [Sam Blalock] (ca. 1840–1901)". In Frank, Lisa Tendrich (ed.).Women in the American Civil War. Vol. 1.ABC-CLIO. p. 132.ISBN 978-1851096008.LCCN 2007025822.OCLC 152580687.OL 11949332M. Retrieved8 December 2022 – viaInternet Archive.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^kEggleston, Larry G. (14 March 2003).Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others.McFarland & Company.ISBN 978-0786414932.LCCN 2003001313.OCLC 51580671.OL 3671828M. Retrieved8 December 2022 – viaInternet Archive.
^^a ^bHall, Richard (1993).Patriots in disguise : women warriors of the Civil War (1 ed.). New York: Paragon House. p. 198.ISBN 978-1-55778-438-4.OCLC 25873998.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^kBlanton, DeAnne; Wike, Lauren Cook (1 September 2002).They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. Conflicting worlds. Baton Rouge: LSU Press. p. 102.ISBN 978-0-8071-2806-0.OCLC 315917223.
^Nofi, Albert A. (22 March 1995).A Civil War Treasury: Being A Miscellany Of Arms And Artillery, Facts And Figures, Legends And Lore, Muses And Minstrels And Personalities And People. Hachette Books. p. 357.ISBN 978-0-306-80622-3.OCLC 31078934.
^Blanton, DeAnne (Spring 1993)."Women Soldiers of the Civil War".Prologue Magazine.25 (1). College Park, Md.:National Archives and Records Administration.Archived from the original on 5 December 2007.
^Clausius, Gerhard P. (Winter 1958). "The Little Soldier of the 95th: Albert D. J. Cashier".Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.51 (4): 381.ISSN 2328-3246.JSTOR 40189639.
^^a ^b ^cTsui, Bonnie (2006).She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War. Guilford: Two Dot. p. 99.ISBN 978-0-7627-4384-1.
^Hall, Richard H. (2006).Women on the Civil War Battlefront. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. p. 123.ISBN 0-7006-1437-0.
^Massey, Mary Elizabeth; Berlin, Jean V. (1994).Women in the Civil War. Bison Book. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 80.ISBN 978-0-8032-8213-1.OCLC 299768880.
^^a ^bSchultz, Jane E. (15 December 2005).Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 290.ISBN 978-0-8078-6415-9. as quoted inLeonard, Elizabeth D. (1 September 2002)."To 'Don the Breeches, and Slay Them With a Will!' A Host of Women Soldiers". In Barton, Michael; Loguel, Larry M. (eds.).The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader. NYU Press. p. 78.ISBN 978-0-8147-2514-6.
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^Frank, Lisa Tendrich (2013).An Encyclopedia of American Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields. ABC-CLIO. p. 412.ISBN 978-1-59884-443-6.
^^a ^bHarriel-Hidlebaugh, Shelby (December 3, 2016)."Searching for Sophronia: Sophronia Smith Hunt, 29th Iowa Infantry".Forbidden, Hidden, and Forgotten: Women Soldiers of the Civil War.Archived from the original on May 21, 2021 – via Blogspot.
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