Frances Hook, also known as Private Frank Miller, Frank Henderson, and Frank Fuller of Co. G, 90th Illinois Infantry Regiment, 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment, and 11th Illinois Infantry Regiment in uniform T.J. Merritt's National Portrait Gallery, 42 and 44 Union Street, Nashville, Tenn
Summary
Photograph shows identified soldier who was discovered to be a woman when she was wounded at the Battle of Fredericktown, Missouri. Afterwards, she enlisted in another regiment and was captured at Florence, Alabama, and imprisoned in Atlanta where again she was discovered to be a woman.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144)
Purchased from: Fort Donelson Relics, December 2015.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
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Tags
Date
01/01/1861
Location
united states
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.