Sex in the 60's

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And yet another bad girl

Nov 13th, 1861
T. Curlze
Justice of the Peace
Erie, Erie County, PA

To the Manger of the House of Refuge of Western Pennsylvania.
…Martha Warner...is of the age of fifteen years, that she is unmanageable and beyond the control of her mother and other relations, that she is of an abandoned character, parading the streets of Erie during the night time in company of vicious young men, that she does not follow the ways of chastity and virtue, but follows men in order to gratify her depraved passions, and that it is impossible for her relations to bring her back to the path of virtue, and that the welfare of said Martha Warner requires that she should be placed in the guardianship of the managers of the House of Refuge…

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Finally, a gal that stood up for herself

Aug 13, 1864
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

…Emma Jane Mecum…did dispose and say that a certain William D. Myers of the township of Muncy…on or about the sixth day of April A.D. one thousand and eight hundred and sixty-three in the dwelling house on the floor at the residence of the said William D. Myers in the township of Muncy did then and there deliberately wickedly, willfully, maliciously, and feloniously by force and violence, assault and with illicit commission, carnally know, ravish, debauch and deflower a certain Emma Jane then living with the family of the said William D. Myers, against her will. She said William D. Myers (being a married man and having a wife in full life) did commit adultery with her the said Emma Jane Mecum at the time of the carnal knowledge aforesaid and at divers other times since…

[Hank Trent]

Re: Bad Girl

I bought me a suit of blues and had my hair cut short and then made for headquarters and was sworn in as a solder of the first Mich Engineers Mechanics CO D. You bet I fell in spots but went ahead soldiering. They called me little Pete. So the long wished for day came at last. We were mustered out of service and sent to Jackson Mich to be paid off. That was in October.

Sure enough, that would have been in the fall of 1865:

The regiment received orders to march to Louisville, KY. On June 6th, and hence to Nashville, TN. There were stationed there from the 1st of July until 22nd of September, where they were used to construct better defenses. The unit was mustered out on Sept. 2, 1865, and marched back to Jackson, Michigan, arriving there Oct. 1, 1865. The solders were then paid and disbanded. Source.

Looks like there are enough sources such as this, so it might be possible to come up with some guesses, through process of elimination, who she was in a list of "men" mustered out.

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net

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Re: Sex in the 60s

Looks like there are enough sources such as this, so it might be possible to come up with some guesses, through process of elimination, who she was in a list of "men" mustered out.

Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net



Hank,
I had a friend who is into genealogy try to find more info on Miss White but she was unable to come up with anything.
I also checked the CW data base and was unable to find any "Pete" whose enlistment fit her description.

[lthull3rdla]

Re: Sex in the 60s

Sex? whats that? LOL

[27thNCdrummer]

Re: Sex in the 60s

It seems like yamyam was a common term for sex? does anybody have any documentation for this other than the two letters already posted that mention it?