They Didn't Just Enlist in Wartime

This article is from the Fremont Weekly Journal (Ohio) reprinted from the Utica Telegraph in 1855 shows that women didn't just have their sights set on serving in the military during wartime.

Of course, if she had kept her nose clean, who knows how long she would have served.  Or perhaps that's why she enlisted to begin with - to flee from the law.  Some did that to escape the Georgia State Penitentiary at Milledgeville during the Civil War.  Click [HERE] to read an article I wrote about it.

Until next formation....rest.