The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1917-05-25


y women have not won this
Kind of celebrity. The Civil war was
certainly no exception.
There were many girls who fought
through the war on both the Union
and Confederate sides. For example,
DR.. Mary e. Walker received a COM
mission as assistant surgeon, and went
| through the war with 1t, but there
were many women who enlisted and
went through hard service without
making Doctor Walkers reputation.
For example, there was Frances Hook,
fourteen-year-old girl, who enlisted
with her brother at Chicago. The two
enlisted in the Sixty-ffth Illinois and
were mustered out after three months.
Frances Hook, wearing male clothes,
enlisted in the Nineteenth. Her broth
er was killed at Shiloh, but the girl,
still wearing the clothes of q man,
fought through the war until Chicka
manga, when she was captured and
shot through the leg in an attempt to
escape. While she was a prisoner in
Atlanta, Jefferson Davis is said to
have offered her a lieutenancy if she
would join the Confederate forces.
Frances, it is said, replied to Presi-
dent Davis offer that she would let
herself be hanged before she would
take up arms against the Union. She
had enlisted under the name of Frank
Miller.
In one of the regiments from Ohio
a girl enlisted. She was the sister
of a member of the regiment. While
at Camp Jackson and Camp Dennison
she handled lumber, performed sentry
duty, and did other work of that sort.
1t was two weeks before she learned
that there were two Camp Dennisons,
and that her brother was at the other
one. Straightway she made application
for a transfer and failed. She wanted |
to go to the Pennsylvania Camp Den
nison, and she wanted to go badly. |
sort of fellow named Morrow, talked |
to the girl for some time and made |
her confess that she was flying under !
false colors. Without much ceremony
she was dismissed and sent home
Just after the battle of Chicka-
Colonel Burke of the Tenth
Ohio exchanged large number of
prisoners with the Confederates. He
noticed a particularly clever and able
7oung man among the prisoners he re-
,eived-a boy who gave the name of
frank Henderson. The colonel became
Interested enough to inquire who Frank
vas, and found out that he was
,irl. He, or rather she, had enlisted
With her brother at the outbreak of
he war. They were orphans, and were
devoted to each other, and she could
lot bear the thought of being sep
rated from him. He had been her
nly companion from babyhood.
At the expiration of her enlistment
or three months in the regiment she
vas mustered out, and next enlisted
q another regiment from southern I'LL
ois, where her sex was not discOv-
red. She was wounded two or three
ines, discharged and sent home, and
nlisted again in the Nineteenth Illi-
OILS. She was finally captured, and a
uilet WOunu III leT leg leu TO the
iscovery of her sex.
There is no drawer story in all the
nnals of war than that of MaryI |
wens. She came from a place called t
anville, in Pennsylvania. Her hus- $
and decided to enlist. Mary went n
18th him; she and he went to the f
ont together; she had eloped with v
i'm, and now she was ready to carry i
er decision to the limit. Man and I
life, they fought together until a bull S
t put the man out of the running; f
nd even then the woman fought on t
Southern bullet struck her in the
lest and she went to the hospital, t
1T on the record were written the t
ords, "a more faithful soldier never b
louldered q musket." Y
In Brooklyn, N. Y, girl enlisted A
Id fought to the finish through the II
ar until she was MORALLY wounded s.
HoOker's advance on Lookout noun b
in. d
Fanny Wilson enlisted in the TWEEN ii
fourth New Jersey In order to fol- b