The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-21
WOMEN FOUGHT IN THE WAR.
Many Instances of Members OF the Fair Sex
Who ShouIdered Muskets for Uncle Sam.

1,eNIiSyiNdH1d, giving as ner reason tHdC
she preferred to associate with Ameri-
cans, and that most of the men in the
outfit to which she was attached were
foreigners. Colonel Morrow discovered
her sex and dismissed her from the
camp.
| A girl named Fanny Wilson enlisted
| in the Twenty-fourth New Jersey in
] order to follow her sweetheart, who
was a member of the same regiment.
into the field. He knew nothing of her
action, but she saw him every day,
and came near to being assigned to the
same mess with him. The Twenty
fourth New Jersey fought through the
first campaign in Western Virginia, the
girl carrying herself valiantly. Then
the regiment was ordered before Vicks-
burg. The girls lover was wounded,
and, without revealing her sex, Miss
Wilson nursed him. She only made
herself known to him just before he
died. She herself became i'll when her
lover was laid away, and, with large
number of sick and wounded was sent
to Cairo Ill. Here her sex was reveal
ed. Upon her recovery she was dis
missed from the service. The girl was
thrown upon her own resources in
Cairo, and for time she served an en-
gagement as ballet girl Then she
went to Memphis and enlisted again,
this time in a cavalry regiment, the
Third Illinois. Her sex was discovered
after a couple of weeks. She was stop
ped by the guard and arrested for be-
ing a woman in mans clothing" She
WIS taken to the headquarters of the
commanding officer, it being suspected
that she might be a Confederate spy,
but she made it clear that she was
good, loyal Federal soldier. She was
provided with an outfit of women's
clothes and sent back North.
A young woman named Mary Owens,
of DanvilIe Montour County Penn,
enlisted in order to be with her hus-
band The girls father had been .vio-
lently opposed to her marriage. The
couple had been married secretly, and
the young woman donned the United
States uniform, enlisted under the name
of John Evans in the same company
with her husband, endured all the hard
ships of the camp and the dangers of
the field, saw her husband fall dead by
her side and returned home wounded
herself. Her sex was not discovered
while she was in the service. She was
in the army for IS months, took part in
three battles. and was wounded twice,
both times in her arms. She dressed
the wounds herself in order to preserve
the secret of her sex. She was a Welsh
girl, and pretty and clever.
A bright little girl but II years of age
enlisted as drummer boy in one OF
the Pennsylvania regiments in the early
period of the war. She gave the name
of Charles Martin. She was of good
stock. apparently, and had evidently
enjoyed the advantages of an educa-
ton, for she wrote an excellent hand,
and she made herself useful to the Off
GERS of the regiment in the capacity of
a clerk She was involved in the
chances of five battles, but escaped un-
hurt. The officers never dreamed OF
any question as to the child's sex. She
was finally seized with typhoid fever
and removed to the Pennsylvania Hos
pitaI in Philadelphia. Here her sex was
discovered and the brave little girl was
returned to her people.
A Brooklyn girl tried hard to enlist
in several Brooklyn recruiting offices
without success. She went to Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, where she had relatives, and
remained with them long enough to as
certain the whereabouts of the Michi-
gan regiments. Then she went TO De-
troit, where she joined the drum corps
of one of the wolverine regiments.
was sent with her regiment to the army
of the Cumberland. She survived the
hardships of the Kentucky campaign,
where so many strong men went down
During the Battle of Lookout Noun
tain she was struck in the left side by
a mimic ball. The surgeon discovered
her sex and told the girl that her
wound was mortal. She dictated let
ter to her parents in Brooklyn and died
within an hour after she was shot.
A War Department official who has
held his position since before the Civil
War has apparently authentic data,
gathered during the war, respecting the
cases of hundred and more girls and
women who soldiered during the great
conflict. But he smiles incredulouSly
when the stories are mentioned to him
about the girl soldiers in the Philip
pines Washington Star.
The death rate of negroes is nearly