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Thought I would pass the link along so you could see it for yourselves. Found a relic dealer that has a letter for sale written by Colonel Clark S. Edwards of the 5th Maine Infantry to his wife in April 1863. In the letter he is telling his wife that a female soldier had a baby while on picket the other day! He also relates in the letter that this woman was in the army for over a year and participated in the Penninsular and Maryland Campaigns.
Where does one begin on this matter?
-She must have gotten pregnant while in the army.
-Obviously some of the boys in her unit not only knew she was a woman but one of them was either her husband/boyfriend.
-The mere fact this woman carried a child to term under the conditions of being in the army is amazing.
Thought I would pass the link along so you could see it for yourselves. Found a relic dealer that has a letter for sale written by Colonel Clark S. Edwards of the 5th Maine Infantry to his wife in April 1863. In the letter he is telling his wife that a female soldier had a baby while on picket the other day! He also relates in the letter that this woman was in the army for over a year and participated in the Penninsular and Maryland Campaigns.
Where does one begin on this matter?
-She must have gotten pregnant while in the army.
-Obviously some of the boys in her unit not only knew she was a woman but one of them was either her husband/boyfriend.
-The mere fact this woman carried a child to term under the conditions of being in the army is amazing.
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