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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> |
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+ | 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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+ | ==''References''== | ||
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+ | ==[[Rich Wilson: Aspects of Queer Existence in 19th-Century America]]== | ||
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− | + | ==[[General Philip H. Sheridan: Two she-dragoons in the Union Army, 1863]]== | |
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Latest revision as of 12:11, 26 November 2012
(Civil War soldier carte de visite photograph, taken during 1861-1865)
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]
References