US Civil War soldier – According to the Cincinnati Daily Press, a police officer “arrested a female yesterday who was dressed in a soldier’s uniform.” This woman, known as Harry Fitzallen stood before a judge who “let her go on promise to don her proper habiliments.”
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.