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| − | The Civil War included soldiers with same-sex desires. For example, in his memoirs Union General Sheridan tells of a pair of women--two “Amazons”--who somehow enlisted as soldiers. While in the army “an intimacy had sprung up between them.” They “secured a supply of 'apple-jack,'” “got very drunk,” fell in a river, and nearly drowned. During resuscitation “their sex was disclosed.” | + | The Civil War included soldiers with same-sex desires. For example, in his memoirs Union General Sheridan tells of a pair of women--two “Amazons”--who somehow enlisted as soldiers. While in the army “an intimacy had sprung up between them.” They “secured a supply of 'apple-jack,'” “got very drunk,” fell in a river, and nearly drowned. During resuscitation “their sex was disclosed.”<ref>Jonathan Katz, ''Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.'' (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976), 227.</ref> |
| − | About an all-male soldier dance, an infantryman reported, “For ladies we had boys in ladies clothes...I guess some of them did get layed with. I know I slept with mine.” | + | About an all-male soldier dance, an infantryman reported, “For ladies we had boys in ladies clothes...I guess some of them did get layed with. I know I slept with mine.”<ref>Jonathan Ned Katz, ''Love Stories: Sex Between Men before Homosexuality'' (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001), 136.</ref> |
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(Civil War soldier carte de visite photograph, taken during 1861-1865)
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Same-Sex Desire in the Civil War
The Civil War included soldiers with same-sex desires. For example, in his memoirs Union General Sheridan tells of a pair of women--two “Amazons”--who somehow enlisted as soldiers. While in the army “an intimacy had sprung up between them.” They “secured a supply of 'apple-jack,'” “got very drunk,” fell in a river, and nearly drowned. During resuscitation “their sex was disclosed.”[1]
About an all-male soldier dance, an infantryman reported, “For ladies we had boys in ladies clothes...I guess some of them did get layed with. I know I slept with mine.”[2]
