Eureka Reporter | 1904-10-21 | Page 2 | Women Who Were Warriors

WOMEN WHO WERE WARRIOR reccie Rec cde of amazons fn the ainali of most countries there Is scarcely a country with out its women warriors who for love of man or love of country have dis guised their sex and fought side by side with men england Is proud of the name and record of phoebe eel to whom a monument has lately been erected at brighton christian cavenagh was another famous female warrior whose hus band was and carried away to holland where he had to enlist as a private soldier the wife followed him and disguised as a man fought and was wounded and was taken prisoner at the battle of tan den america has a long list of amazons beginning with mrs seelye who served throughout the civil war as a common soldier field nurse and fighting all day and nursing at night penetrating the enemy s lines no less than eleven times to mrs who fought side by side with her husband in the trenches 0 the philippines