"Civil War Prison Newspaper"

"Frank{Frances} Miller, the young lady soldier, now at Barracks No. One, will be mustered out of the service in accordance with the army regulations which prohibit the enlistment of females in the army, and sent to her parents in Pennsylvania.

This will be sad news to Frances, who has cherished the fond hope that she would be permitted to serve the Union cause during the war.

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She has been of great service as a scout to the army of the Cumberland, and her place will not easily be filled. She is a true patriot and a gallant soldier."

The St. Louis "Times," after the close of the war , gave the following account of a witness in court, in that city:

"This lady is a historical character, having served over two years in the Federal army during the war;fifteen months as a private in the Illinois cavalry, and over nine months as a teamster in the noted Lead mine regiment raised from the counties of Jo. Daviess and Carrol.

She was at the siege of Corinth, and was on duty during most of the campaign against Vicksburg.

At Lookout Mountain, she formed one of the party of eighteen, selected to make a scout and report the position of General Bragg's forces.

She went through her army life under the cognomen of Soldier Tom."

"To the disgrace of men it is seen, that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it is happened."

Sir P. Sidney

"Women have more heart and more imagination than men."

Lamartine