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She enlisted in the 7th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in order not to be parted from her lover, who was in the same regiment. Her sex was discovered within a few days, before her company had left Detroit. She was arrested in uniform, held in the city jail, and charged with masquerading as a manitoba
The account of the incident in the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune (February 25, 1863) described the defendant as "a very pretty woman".
