Sarah Collins

Sarah Collins was a 16-year-old schoolgirl from Lake Mills, Wisconsin,^[1] who was an orphan along with her brother Mason.^[2] She enlisted as a soldier in a Wisconsin regiment with her brother during the American Civil War. Although she disguised herself as a man by cutting off her hair and donned men's clothing, her sex was suspected because of how she put on her shoes and socks.^[3] She was discovered to be female before her regiment left for the front.

References

↑ Hall, Richard H. (2006). Women on the Civil War Battlefront. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. p. 123. ISBN 0700614370.
↑ Blanton, DeAnne (2002). Women Soldiers in the American Civil War: They Fought like Demons. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. p. 33. ISBN 0807128066.
↑ Blanton, DeAnne (2002). Women Soldiers in the American Civil War: They Fought like Demons. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. p. 110. ISBN 0807128066.

Massey, Mary Elizabeth. Bonnet Brigades (1966), p. 80.
The Civil War Book of Lists, Combined Books, 1993 p. 179-182.

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[1] Hall, Richard H. (2006). Women on the Civil War Battlefront. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. p. 123. ISBN 0700614370.

[2] Blanton, DeAnne (2002). Women Soldiers in the American Civil War: They Fought like Demons. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. p. 33. ISBN 0807128066.

[3] Blanton, DeAnne (2002). Women Soldiers in the American Civil War: They Fought like Demons. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. p. 110. ISBN 0807128066.