Mary Burns (US Civil War soldier)
- Mary Burns (US Civil War soldier)
Mary Burns was an American woman who disguised herself as a man in order to fight in the American Civil War. [Albert A. Nofi, "A Civil War Treasury". Da Capo Press, 1995. ISBN 0306806223, p. 357.] She enlisted in the 7th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in order not to be parted from her lover, who was in the same regiment. [DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook, "They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War". LSU Press, 2002. ISBN 0807128066, pp. [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=deYLGaWeUCcC&oi=fnd&pg=PP15&dq=%22Mary+Burns%22+%22civil+war%22&ots=oMcDzqCrvD&sig=Q8s0SAEpAHXM2FYpI_Oj6GOPL4g#PPA31,M1 31] and [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=deYLGaWeUCcC&oi=fnd&pg=PP15&dq=%22Mary+Burns%22+%22civil+war%22&ots=oMcDzqCrvD&sig=Q8s0SAEpAHXM2FYpI_Oj6GOPL4g#PPA124,M1 124] .] Her sex was discovered within a few days, before her company had left Detroit. [Mary Elizabeth Massey, "Women in the Civil War". University of Nebraska Press, 1994. ISBN 0803282133. p. 80, citing the Detroit "Advertiser and Tribune", Feb. 25, 1863. Available on [http://books.google.com/books?id=b3eh-EgzyS0C&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=%22mary+burns%22+civil+war&source=web&ots=IVveTJ3yrb&sig=erCujPe9uA65KBctbUiI_6BZPOU#PPA80,M1 Google books] . Accessed 8 January 2008.] She was arrested in uniform, held in the city jail, and charged with masquerading as a man. The account of the incident in the Detroit "Advertiser and Tribune" (Feb. 25, 1863) described the defendant as "a very pretty woman". [Cited in "Michigan Women in the Civil War". Michigan, 1963. p. 33.]
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