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1860s newsprint

May 16, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois)

            A Pennsylvania girl, who has been serving as a soldier in the Army of the West for ten months, says that she has discovered a great many females among the soldiers, one of whom is now a Lieutenant.  She has assisted in burying three female soldiers at different times, whose sex was unknown to any one but herself.

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