The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-16
WOMEN IN THE ARMY.
THEY FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL
 VAR.
Clad in Mems Uniforms They Did Their Part Toward Saving the Union Some Romantic Stories,


 Part Toward Saving the Union
 Some Romantic Stories.
 The discovery following the death in
 New York the other day of Murray Hall
 that this well-known Tammany politi-
 elan, roisterer and "all-around-sport
 of thirty years standing, was not a
 man at all, but woman, has brought
 to light a number of revelations con-
 cerning women who have successfully
 masqueraded as men in peace and war. A Washington man who has been in the
 war department for more than forty
 years, and who during the civil war kept record of all the cases that came
 to his notice wherein women were dis covered under arms in both services, federal and confederate, gave the writer hereof access to his women soldiers
 data the other day, and the matter is
 both peculiar and interesting.
 Physical examinations for enlistment during the civil war did not amount to much more than the recruiting officers s eye measurement of the applicant S inches. If the applicant approXimated five feet in height and was not obvious ly blind, halt, lame or deaf and dumb admission to the ranks were given, and this was particularly the case when the war had been in progress for a couple of years. The wonder does not, there fore, seem so great that a considerable number of women actually soldiered as uniformed men during the civil war A majority of these adventurous women enlisted on the Union side, and their sex in most cases was only revealed when they were wounded in action. There were doubtless many more women who enlisted in the armies on both sides as men than the records ShoW-women, who, having escaped wounds and deter tion, were mustered out at the close of their enlistments, or at the conclusion of the war, without their actual sex becoming known to their officers or. comrades. It seems almost incredible that some of these women, whose cases are well authenticated, should have car ried out their Receptions with such suc- cess under difficult circumstances, but the fact remains that very few of them were discovered to be women through their poor acting of their soldierly roles. g A girl of twenty-two named Frances Hook, who is described as ''of about medium height, with dark hazel eyes, dark brown hair, rounded features, and feminine voice and appearance" enlist ed with her brother in the Sixty-fifth Illinois home guards shortly after the beginning of the civil war. She and her brother were orphans. In enlisting the girl assumed the name of Frank Miller. She served three months and was mus tered out without the slightest suspi- cion as to her sex having arisen Her brother was killed in action soon after he enlisted. After receiving her three months discharge the girl Frank Mil ler'' re-enlisted in the Union army, this time in the Ninetieth Illinois.
 She was taken prisoner in a battle near Chattanooga. In attempting to escape she was shot through the calf of the right leg. The Confederate soldiers who picked her up searched her for pa pers and discovered her sex. >The Con- federates respected her sex and gave her separate room in the military prison at Atlanta. The girl claimed l that during her captivity she received ] letter from Jefferson Davis offering her a lieutenant's commission. If she would accept the Confederate service, | put this fact has never been verified f The girl had no home and no relatives ! put she said that she would rather fight IS private soldier for the stars and stripes than accept any commission up . 70 that of lieutenant-general in the Confederate army. She was eventually She said upon reaching the north that her captors had tried to ex- .ort from her promise that she would 90 home and not enter the Union ser yice again.
 "Go home?" she replied, "Go home, ind my brother, the only relative had n the world, killed by my side at Pitts ,urg Landing? I've got no home to go o, and I would not go to it, even if I lad one, until the war is over.'
 This young woman's subsequent ca Ger in the service, If. indeed, she again e-enlisted, is not known.
 The brother of a young Ohio girl had nlisted, and she determined to join i'm. She was inspected, accepted and worn in with the rest of her company. ne CO1Hpduy i1dTcHeu LO OtIilp JdCh- on, Ohio, and drilled there for several l avs, when the girl was sent with the l Third Ohio regiment to Camp Denni- on, near Cincinnati. Here she assist z d in all the duties of forming a new l amp, handling lumber, doing sentry ' uty etc., for a couple of weeks, when, scertaining for the first time that there l ere two Camp Dennisons, and that her g rother was stationed in the other one, ' ear Lancaster, Pa., she went to her I officer, Colonel Morrow I nd requested to be transferred to the @ amp Dennison in Pennsylvania, giving s 5 her reason that she preferred to as- c )ciate with Americans, and that most \ ? the men in the outfit to which she t as attached were foreigners. Colonel il [orrow, shrewd man, discovered the t. rls sex, and dismissed her from the V imp, e A bright little girl of twelve years of a re enlisted as drummer boy in one of S e Pennsylvania regiments in the early O ,riod of the war. She gave the name o
 Charles Martin. She was of good K ock, apparently, and had evidently a joyed the advantages of an education, D r. she wrote an excellent hand and il ade herself useful to the officers of the fl giment in the capacity of clerk. She sl as involved in the chances of five bat e IS, but she escaped unharmed. The V icers never dreamed of any question
 to tba ohiId,S She uyos finally