Spring’s not a bad time to celebrate the creative arts. From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in April 1865:
A corporal of the 18th New Hampshire regiment was recently taken ill and sent to the hospital, and in a few hours afterwards presented her comrades with a fine, healthy “raw recruit.”
It is written that the the 18th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry was serving in the Appomattox campaign 150 years ago this month.
“Unidentified woman sitting with her arm resting on a table” (Library of Congress)
and a few women just joined up
