The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-03-03
FEMALE SOLDIERS.
WOMEN WHO HAVE BORNE THE MUsKET
THEIR SEX BEING UNsUsPEC1ED.


WOMEN WHO HAVE BORNE THE MUsKEr
THEIR SEX BEING UNsUsPEC-ED.
The cable reports that an English Amazon
has set to work in Herzegovina, to organize
guerilla band against the AustriaDs. thouob
1t may be doubted whether she will urove
quite as successful as Pitts niece and secre-
tary, Lady Hester Stanhope, who ruled her
little corner Of Syria literally with sword and
lire, and had her army Of devoted soldiers
with whom she could bid defiance 10 the
Niceroy of Egypt. The Philadelphia Ledger
recently announced the death or Mrs. Eliza
beth IIatzier, at the age of ninety-two, Ieav
ing large family of children, grandchildren
and great-grandchiIdren She was married
to sergeant of cavalry in the French ser
vice in 1910, and when her husband was or
defed 10 Russia she determined to 60 also
Her hair was cut short and her female ap-
parei changed for a soldiers uniform. and
thus disguised she passed through the 8, mole
campaign, riding by the side of her husband
She was present AZ ali the principal battles
and at the burning of Moscow. They wcre
taken prisoners, but finally got bacr to
France in safety, whence they came 70 the
United States in 1876.
Not long ago woman died in the Medical
College Hospital. at Nashville, Tern, who
was said to have twice enlisted i'm the reru-
lar army during the war. and to have served
Tor some months each time before her sex
was discovered. Her name was Jennie
Robertson, but she was more familiarlv
known as Soldier Charlie" Another ..ro-
n arBb
time ago, telliu. how Katie Hanson, of Tioga
county, Pennsylvania, who had preGi ectiou
for masculine wars and was an expert rife
woman, disappeared from home not long be-
Tore the war, and donning male attire, OBJ
tained work on a lake steamboat until the
breaking out of the war, when she enlisted
in an Ohio regiment. and rose to be sergeant.
In 1864. her CAPTAIN. James Hopkins. told
her be had long suspected Il at she was wo-
man, and the charge was so unexpected that
SHE lost her lf-pOssessiOn and convicted
herself by her reply. She begged the Cap
tain not TO reveal her secret, but he took her
before General Thomas, and made the fact
known to him. Katie was at once sent back
to the rear and ordered to resume her proper
attire. She became a nurse in the hospital,
and soon had in her care her Captain, who
had been wounded in skirmish. Between
them strong affection was formed. At the
close of the war they were married. and
after spending some years in Cuba returned
to this country, well-to do and happy Dur
ing the Tacent war between Chill and Peru.
Chiian woman enlisted in a cavalry regi-
ment, her sex being known, and rose to be
sergeant. Some three years a it was re-
ported from Rome that soldier named Ma
Iiott, of the 11th Battalion of the BersaClieri
VINO. though long confined to the room by
Illness, had refused to be carried to the hos
pital, on being forcibly removed thither had
been discovered to be a woman. She had
Joined the army during the war OF 1866 to
enable her brother to remain with his wife
and six children. She had previously been
very strong, and worked I'm the mines At
Custozza she won n medal for bravery
The King conferred on her a decor alton and
sent her home with pension of $50 a year.
A great number of women. it is well known,
figured in the ranks of the Communist army
IN 1871, at Paris. A writer in Notes and
Queries some time ago mentioned some cases
of female soldiers discovered in foreign ar
mics. In the French army, for instance.
there were canon othPrs) Louise Houssaye
de Bannes. who served from 1892 70 1895,
and was at Quiberon; Angelique Bruon
(nee Duchemin, for she was marred), sous
lieutenant of infantry, and decorated with
the Legion of Honor who was born in 1892, /
and died in the Invalides about 1859; The |
Tese FiGuer, who served as a dragoon for
fourteen years, from 179S to 1872 had four
horses killed under her, and died in 1861 at
the age of eiphty-seven, in the Ho-pice des I.
Petits Menages, at Paris: Virqinie Chesnie- I
res, who served during the PeninsulaT War /
as n sergeant in the Twenty Regi- I
ment and died in 1873. Louisa Scana gatti /.
was a lieutenant of infantry in the Austrian
or Sandman army during the Napoleon I.
wars Marietta Giullani and Hcrminia Ma /
ne nj fought under Garibaldi in 1866; Her I
minia was at the battle of CustozZa. Au- f.
Custa Kruger fought in the War OF Liberia /.
ton against the French as a subaltern in the .
Ninth PrusSian Regiment. and was decora- 4
ted with the Iron Cross and the Russian Or /
der of st. George she (after leaving the ar
my married a brother officer ia 1916, and in 1
1916, and IN 1869 her grandson received .
commission in his granGi&other's regiment. 4
Bertha Weiss is said to have fought at Spich-
eren in 1870, but il is not sure that her case /
is genuine. "a young Russian officer" Cher
name is not eiven) was by the LoSdon I
Times correspondent on September %, 1877,
re ported to have fallen at KaceIynvo after
displaying the most brilliant Gallantry in raj
lying her men against the Turks; the event
text for a well-known and touch
ing poem. Dolores Rodriguez. Corporal Cat
the age Of eiehbteen) in the First Regiment
Of Peruvian Sappers. fought in the present
South American war, and is still in service.
Female soldiers have been less common in
the English army. still the names of several
women have been borne on its rolls. Thus
when the Royal Marines distinguished them
. airas n1,dar Roaca rrari e Por aicharrv fnrs-