A She Sojer Boy, Delaware State Journal (Article, 1862)

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A SHE SOJER BOY.--

The Rochester Democrat gives a long account of the exploits of a female soldier. She tended bar two weeks last winter at the Clinton House, Albion, N. Y., going by the name of Charley Miller. Last spring she enlisted in the Eighteenth New York regiment, and served two months as a drummer-boy, calling herself Edward O. Hamilton. She has driven a hackney coach at sundry times in Rochester and Buffalo. A few days ago she tried to enlist in Rochester, when her sex was discovered.--The Democrat says that almost from childhood she has chosen to unsex herself and lead a masquerading life in male garb. For some two years she [traveled] with a circus. She was in Rochester with a concern of that sort, in the employ of a man who sold whips from a wagon. So long has she passed herself off as a boy, that she scarcely retains any feminine characteristics. When she is in her favorite attire, there is nothing in her general appearance, or in her voice, to indicate than she is other than she seems. A slightly peculiarity in her walk is alone likely to betray her.