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My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier

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By Lynda Durrant
Publisher HMH Trade
My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier
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Jennie Hodgers dressed as a boy for the first time in order to help support her impoverished Irish family with a shepherds wages. Then her arrival in America confirmed her belief that the world offers better opportunities to young men than to young women. So Jennie maintained her outward identity as Albert Cashier, serving as a grocery clerk in Queens, New York; as a farmhand in Ohio; and as a recruit in the 95th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. Not only did she survive three years in combat with her true identity undiscovered, she chose to continue living as Albert for nearly all of her life. Combining careful research with vivid insight, Lynda Durrant portrays Albert Cashier as a soldier who served his adopted country and his comrades with loyalty and heroism, and Jennie Hodgers as a woman of a woman of astonishing strength, courage, and adaptabilitya woman sometimes at war with her own secrets. Authors note, bibliography.

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42014 words42,014 words
192 pages192 pages
Lexile 760LLexile 760L
Grade 5 to 8Grade 5 to 8
Published 2006Published 2006

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