Miss F. L. Clayton, 4th Mis. Arty [i.e. Missouri Artillery], wounded in the battles of Shiloh and Stone River

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Miss F. L. Clayton, 4th Mis. Arty [i.e. Missouri Artillery], wounded in the battles of Shiloh and Stone River

ca. 1865

hotograph shows portrait of Frances Clalin Clayton, woman who disguised herself as a man, "Jack Williams," to fight in the Civil War, wearing dress.

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Clayton, Frances Louisa, approximately 1830-

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Frances Louisa Clayton was an American woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union Army in the American Civil war. Under the alias Jack Williams, she claimed to have enlisted in a Missouri regiment along with her husband, and fought in several battles. ...