UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER-WOMEN

For every soldier discovered to be female upon her death, there may have been on the order of five to ten that went undiscovered. This list is arranged by state, if known.

• Charlie and Frank Stanhope were “brothers” in the 10th Georgia Infantry. The night before a battle, Charlie appealed to the surgeon to keep Frank away from the fight as he had a horrible premonition of doom. As the Confederate ranks were so thin, both were sent into battle. The following day, Charlie received a mortal wound. Frank fainted when he learned of his brother’s fate and, when the surgeon loosened his collar to give him air, the truth was revealed … Frank was a young woman, the wife of Charlie Stanhope.
• Otto Schaffer of Butler County, Kansas.
• Confederate William Bradley served as a private in Mile’s Louisiana Legion for more than two months in 1861. She was attached to the regiment as a laundress after the regimental clerk declared she was “mustered in through mistake, was of female sex.”
• A female going by the name of Frank served as a bugler in the 8th Michigan.
• A Michigan calvalry soldier kept a diary while imprisoned at Andersonville. On December 23, 1863 John L. Ransom wrote, "A woman found among us--a prisoner of war. She tells of another female among us, but as yet she has not been found out."
• Mary Jane G. of Trenton, Michigan was a scribe to a Union army General. She was described as a “handsome, fresh-looking detailed man acting as … clerk”. After her discovery, a newspaper reported that she was the daughter of “estimable members of society.” Her surname was not published, perhaps to avoid embarrassing her parents. 
• In 1863, at age 19, a woman known only as Emily ran away from home and joined the drum corps of a Michigan regiment. The regiment was sent to Tennessee and during the struggle for Chatanooga a minie ball pierced the side of a young soldier. Her wound was fatal and her sex was disclosed. At first she refused to disclose her real name. But, as she lay dying, she consented to dictate a telegram to her father in Brooklyn, "Forgive your dying daughter. I have but a few moments to live. My native soil drinks my blood. I expected to deliver my country but the fates would not have it so. I am content to die. Pray forgive me ... Emily."
• An unidentified Minnesota girl claimed two years of service before being wounded.
• When some bodies were being removed from a Georgia battle site in 1886 for reinterment in a national cemetery, the remains of Pvt. Charles Johehons of the 6th Missouri Infantry were recognized as those of a woman. She was in full uniform and had been shot through the head.
• 19-year old John Williams enlisted as a private in the 17th Missouri Infantry, Co. M, on October 3, 1861 and was mustered into the regiment on the 17th. Later that month, Williams was discharged on the grounds "proved to be a woman".
• Canadian Lou betrayed herself while intoxicated after coming off a march with her Missouri regiment. She was jailed in Memphis for public drunkenness, and was recognized as a woman because she had previously lived in the city.
• A female soldier in a New Jersey regiment, who had been in four battles with her husband, was discovered and sent home after she gave birth.
• In August 1861 at Lancaster, Ohio, an 18-year old student enlisted in the 17^th Ohio Infantry. Pvt. Frank Deming, described as five feet six with dark complexion, gray eyes and black hair. Of the 4,000 Union troops at the Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky on January 29, 1862, at least two were woman: One, an unnamed woman of Scottish descent serving in a Kentucky regiment and the other, Frank Deming. Frank served until May 18, 1862 when he was discharged for disability near Corinth, Mississippi. He was cited as being “incapable of performing the duties of a soldier” because of “a congenital peculiarity which should have prevented her admission into the Army—being a female.”
• A soldier named Tommy in the 45th Ohio (Mounted) Infantry, became ill while a prisoner at Belle Isle prison in the James River near Richmond, Virginia. She was released when her sex was discovered in early February 1864.
• Two women served three years in the 59th Ohio Infantry.
• Pvt. Joseph Davidson, a woman from Ohio, went to war with her father, who was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga. She remained in the army after his death and served for three years.
• George Travis, a female recruit from Wisconsin, was detected on a train and arrested “because the United States army does not enlist women.”
• Nellie A.K. was in the Union Army of the Cumberland (originally known as Army of the Ohio).
• A woman disguised as a man enlisted in Captain Brand's company of the 107th Pennsylvania Infantry. When discovered, a newspaper reported that "She could smoke a cigar, swagger, and take an occasional 'horn' with the most perfect sang froid." She returned home and resumed female attire about a month later without explanation, but said she was determined "to try it again."
• A drummer named Charles Martin was a female serving in a Pennsylvania regiment.
• Two Confederate female casualties (one dead, one seriously wounded) were discovered after the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2-3, 1863. As confirmed in the Army Official Records of the war, the body of an unidentified female Confederate soldier was discovered by a burial detail near the stone wall at the angle on Cemetery Ridge. She had been a participant in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. A reporting author noted, "The fact that her body was found in such an advanced spot is testimony to her bravery. However, except for an unverified story that the woman had enlisted in a Virginia regiment with her husband and was killed carrying the colors during the charge, Hays' notation is the extent of acknowledgement she received for having given her life for her country."
• Another female Confederate casualty at Gettysburg was reported after the battle by a wounded Union soldier from Michigan while in hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. He wrote a letter home saying there was a female Confederate soldier in the hospital with them who had been wounded severely and lost a leg at Gettysburg. He thought this was "romantic" and felt sympathy for her.
• A female political prisoner was held at the Alton POW camp. She is listed as a "Citizen of Memphis, Tennessee" in 1912 Union War Department records. No locality of a grave is shown on her records, but she is reported as having died of smallpox. The hospital for these cases was moved to the island in the Mississippi River opposite Alton during the month of August, 1863. Beginning in November 1863, records show that burial was made on that island of those who died from the effects of smallpox.
• Occasionally, post-mortem forensic evidence is accidentally revealed after a long period of time. It's now known that an unknown female soldier was killed at Shiloh (April 6-7) and buried on the battlefield. In 1934, 72 years later, a gardener working on the fringes of the battlefield found some human remains and notified authorities. Nine bodies were exhumed, along with fragments of military uniforms and gear. One was identified as a woman, and with her remains was the minie ball that apparently killed her.
• As the story goes, an unknown female fought the entire war alongside men and, when the it was over, put on her skirt, walked out of her tent and retired from military service.