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US Civil War soldier

US Civil War soldier who discovered to be a woman after enlisting in the “Veteran Army Corps” (presumably the Veteran Reserve Corps). Her previous discharge paperwork indicated she served three years in the 59th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. On May 24 1864, the Santa Fe Weekly Gazette reported, “Her father had been killed by her side at Chickamauga.” It was presumably her desire to remain with her father that had initially motivated her to enlist.