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