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In the News (Sun 27 May 12)

  
  Only by accident
Albert D.J. Cashire, according to the official report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois.
Private Cashier was one of those fortunate soldiers who apparently escaped the ravages of combat and disease.
At the end of the war Cashier was mustered out with the remainder of the regiment on August 17, 1865 after serving for three years and 11 days in the ranks.
www.nps.gov /vick/visctr/sitebltn/only_by.htm   (800 words)

  
 Winnie's Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Albert was never wounded and after forty battles and skirmishes he and his fellow soldiers returned to Illinois and a hero's welcome.
Albert applied for a Government pension on February 13, 1890 but because he refused to take the required medical examination was denied.
Ives, not knowing that Albert was a girl, assigned her to picket duty and to carry water as all the men did.
www.vermontcivilwar.org /winnie/tid002.shtml   (1717 words)

  
 Descendants of Cashier/Casciere
Joseph Cashier was recruited as part of a labor gang brought over to work in the coalmines of Western Pennsylvania, in the area of Blairsville, east of Pittsburgh.
Joseph Cashier was the only member of his family to leave Collelongo; however there were other members of Joseph’s wife’s family (also the Casciere, or "Cashier" family), who subsequently came over to Pennsylvania and lived in Farrell, PA, a small steel town north of Pittsburgh.
Cashier was a soldier of Co. G of the 95th Illinois Infantry who enlisted from Belvidere, Illinois.
members.kinex.net /tdstanley/Genealogy/Cashier_web.htm   (693 words)

  
 Tour Stop 4
Private Albert D.J. Cashier was stationed in this vicinity with the 95th Illinois Infantry.
Cashier served in the army for three years and participated in several major engagements.
Almost fifty years after the war, Albert was injured in an accident and rushed to a hospital where doctors discovered that he was a she.
www.nps.gov /archive/vick/vcweb/ts_4/ts_4.htm   (154 words)

  
 Albert Cashier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albert Cashier (née Jennie Irene Hodgers) (December 25, 1843-1915), was an Irish-born soldier in the Union Army during the United States Civil War.
Cashier fought in the regiment through the war until August 17, 1865 when all the soldiers were mustered out.
Cashier lived there until his mind deteriorated and he was moved to insane asylum in Watertown State Hospital for the Insane in March 1913.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Cashier   (573 words)

  
 Albert A. Hilliard
ALBERT A. HILLIARD is a native of Harper County, son of the oldest living pioneer around Attica, and has made his mature years count chiefly in the field of banking, in which he has a broad experience.
Andrew Hilliard, father of Albert A., was born in Oneida County, New York, in 1849, was six years of age when his parents removed in 1855 to Wilmington, Illinois, and there he grow to manhood and married.
Albert A. Hilliard spent the first twenty-three years of his life on his father's farm in Harper County.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/bioh/hilliaaa.html   (589 words)

  
 Hole N' The Rock, Moab, Utah
Albert Christensen's home is in a neighborhood of its own -- the knobby, treeless void of southeastern Utah.
Albert blasted and drilled for 12 years, then moved in with his wife Gladys in 1952.
When he died, Albert was starting work on a 100' staircase that would cut up to the top of the rock, where his wife would have arranged a rock garden.
www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/UTMOAhole.html   (476 words)

  
 Albert D. J. Cashier
One said he thought Albert may have had one, but another said, "I remember now that he didn't seem to want a bunk mate." They added Albert was unusually quiet and difficult to get to know and that he did not participate in the games and sport that often took place.
The war is the one subject Albert discussed on rare occasions and his vivid descriptions of the battles left no doubt in the listener's mind but that he actually fought and served in the Union Army.
Albert pleaded with the men to keep his secret and they also decided there was no reason Albert's sex identity need become public knowledge.
history.alliancelibrarysystem.com /IllinoisAlive/files/iv/htm2/ivtxt018.cfm   (2880 words)

  
 Albert Cashier
Albert's distinction in history is not only just about his service in the Union army, but the unique role he played.
Albert was born Jennie Hodgers in 1843 in Clogherhead, Ireland.
Albert is one of the only, if not THE only, woman to successfully portray a man to enter the Civil War, complete his tour of duty and be mustered out of service, AND, receive a military pension.
albertcashier.com   (371 words)

  
 Jennie Hodgers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Born in Dublin, Ireland, her real name was Jennie Hodgers, and she arrived in the United States as a shipboard stowaway and at the time of the Civil War was living in Belvedere, Illinois.
She kept her sex a secret until 1911, when her leg was fractured in a minor automobile accident and the doctor called in to treat her discovered she was a woman.
Realizing that the 66-year-old Cashier was too crippled by the infirmities of age to live alone any longer, her employer arranged to have her admitted to the Soldiers and Sailors home in Quincy.
members.cox.net /quarter_3/Civil_War_Women/Jennie_Hodgers.htm   (506 words)

  
 Guide to Civil War Novels: My Last Skirt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Young Irishwoman Jennie Hodgers emigrates to America and passes for a young man, taking the name Albert Cashier.
Much of the plot of this Young Adult novel centers on the mutual attraction between Albert and his (imaginary) comrade Frank Moore, who divines his secret.
Albert Cashier is a natural subject for historical fiction, but many of the details of this book -- including coinage, weaponry, geography -- ring false, and the love story weakens the novel still further.
www.uta.edu /english/tim/civilwar/2006durmyl.html   (112 words)

  
 Belleville News-Democrat | 11/12/2006 | Woman soldier's home to be restored   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The house's secret was that Cashier and Hodgers were the same person.
But she already was calling herself Albert D.J. Cashier when she turned up in Belvidere, Ill., and enlisted in the 95th Illinois Regiment in 1862.
Later, it was as Cashier that she lived and worked in Saunemin, voted in elections, collected her Army pension and moved in 1911 to the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home (now the Illinois Veterans Home) in Quincy.
www.belleville.com /mld/belleville/news/local/15994191.htm   (356 words)

  
 OCTOBER 2002
There, she had the joy of telling her children and grandchildren that during four years of hard living and bitter fighting, she was the only woman on whom the special Kearny Medal - named for Gen. Philip Kearny and awarded to those who served honorably under him - was bestowed.
ALBERT D. Because Illinois was hard pressed to fill its draft quota, recruitment officers asked few questions when Albert D. Cashier indicated his willingness to fight.
On examining Cashier, the doctor discovered that his patient was actually female.
www.bitsofblueandgray.com /october2002.htm   (2783 words)

  
 Albert & Jennie: A Civil War Story
Albert is an aging veteran of the Civil War who lives in a small rural town in Illinois.
Once medical assistance is called for Albert is treated for her injuries.
Albert and Jennie is a work of historical fiction that also touches on themes related to friendship, loss, isolation, loneliness, and love.
www.authorhouse.com /BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~39946.aspx   (1128 words)

  
 Desert Dispatch newspaper - Barstow, California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Royce Clifford from San Diego chose to represent the life of one Albert Cashier, a private in the 95th Illinois, fighting for the Union under Gen. A.
Cashier had a respectable service record and survived the war, only to be hit by a car in 1901.
During the ensuing medical treatment, Cashier turned out to be a woman.
www.desertdispatch.com /2001-2003/98260026732845.html   (564 words)

  
 Pvt Albert Cahier (aka) Jennie Hodges
There are some accounts by Cashier's fellow comrades indicating that the other soldiers just thought that Cashier was small and shy, the smallest man in the company, but very brave and fearless.
Cashier finally setteled in Saunemin, Illinois in 1869, where she held a number of jobs again without her sex being discovered.
She (still as a man) voted in the presidential elections before Illinois women were given the right to vote.
www.geocities.com /civilwarlady1861/al.html   (312 words)

  
 Sarah Rosetta Wakeman
A surviving photograph taken during her service with the 1st Rhode Island shows her armed with a sword and wearing a knee length dress over her pants.
She continued to disguise herself as Cashier when she joined the 95th Illinois Infantry Volunteers in August 1862.
Cashier was honorably discharged in August 1865 after taking part in Grant's campaign in northern Mississippi including the siege of Vicksburg and raids in Tennessee.
people.csp.edu /woodard/Women/wakeman.htm   (1965 words)

  
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 Irish Echo Online - Arts
She cast about for a while as a farm hand before taking a job as a dry goods clerk in the town of Sanemin, Ill. Hodgers stayed there for the next 40 years, working in many capacities (including janitor and lamplighter), and living in a small house she bought.
While working as a groundskeeper on a nearby estate, she was struck by a car in the driveway and suffered a broken leg.
In 1913, the state of Illinois, apparently believing Hodgers delusional for claiming to be Private Albert D.J. Cashier, sent her to Watertown State Hospital for the Insane.
www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=11809   (1075 words)

  
 Women Soldiers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Any woman in the ranks of either army would have been banished once detected, but some served as soldiers without their sex ever being known.
Albert J. Cashier enlisted in Company G, 95th Illinois, in September 1862, and served in the Vicksburg and Red River campaigns, fought at Nashville, and at the war's end was mustered out with the rest of his regiment.
After a routine medical exam, he filed for a pension in 1899.
civilwar.bluegrass.net /SoldiersLife/womensoldiers.html   (374 words)

  
 SaukValley.com - Serving Dixon, Sterling & Rock Falls
AP The 130-year-old Albert Cashier/Jennie Hodgers house is seen in storage on Pontiac property, Sept. 19, 2001.
Hodgers, who took the name Cashier and served in the Union army during the Civil War, lived in the home 40 years.
But she already was calling herself Albert D.J. Cashier when she turned up in Belvidere, and enlisted in the 95th Illinois Regi-ment in 1862.
www.saukvalley.com /articles/2006/11/12/news/state/290451896258799.txt   (775 words)

  
 Men During Wartime: Albert Cashier
Once she was at the home, knowledge of Hodgers's sex spread, though she continued to receive her pension.
Even the conservator appointed to oversee her financial affairs claimed no knowledge of Hodgers's true identity until March 1913, when the state of Illinois declared Jennie Hodgers insane, presumably on the grounds that she had been "posing" as a Civil War veteran named Albert D. Cashier.
Over the course of her eighteen months at the state hospital, Hodgers's sex became more widely known-"Let me tell you, it was a shock," said one of Hodgers's former neighbors in Saunemin, Ruth Morehart, when she was interviewed in 1991 about the discovery.
www.iath.virginia.edu /fdw/volume2/grossman/cashier.html   (652 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2005027746
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 adaptability--a woman sometimes at war with her own secrets.
www.loc.gov /catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005027746-d.html   (255 words)

  
 lection: they fought like demons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
One of the most fully documented cases is that of Albert Cashier, born as the Irishwoman Jennie Hodgers.
Hodgers became the man Cashier before the war and lived as Cashier for a long time afterwards.
His sex was revealed, and he was forced to wear a dress; in a cruel irony, he broke his hip in a 1914 fall caused by the unfamiliar clothing.
www.uta.edu /english/tim/lection/031016.html   (536 words)

  
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She was the perfect candidate for the secretive job, and "disguised" herself as a women many times to infiltrate the enemies side (Masters of disguise 2).
She was even able to keep up her disguise after the civil war, becoming a bachelor, and was not discovered until 1911 when she had an accident that required hospitalization.
Although "Albert" was not discovered to be a women during the war, "he" was noted to have no beard and be "the shortest man in the company".
asms.k12.ar.us /classes/humanities/amstud/96-97/civwarwomen/sold.htm   (985 words)

  
 Available Books and E-Books In Food, Folklore, Mythology & History - Compass Rose Cultural Crossroads
Also Known As Albert D.J. Cashier is an account of the life of an Irish immigrant girl, Jennie Hodgers, who came to the United States in the years following the Great Potato Famine.
She served for three years in the 95th Illinois Infantry of the Union army under the name Albert Cashier and fought in the battles of Nashville, Mobile, and Vicksburg.
No one ever guessed that she was really a woman, and accounts by her fellow comrades indicate that they just assumed Albert was a small, somewhat shy man. In the years following the Civil War, Jennie took on the life of a bachelor and worked a number of jobs from janitor to handyman.
www.compassrose.org   (785 words)

  
 The Battle of Vicksburg
Private Albert Cashier was a light-haired, skinny eighteen year old farmer.
Under the uniform that he wore there was a secret.
Cashier fooled the enlisting officers and the people she lived among and fought.
www.fortunecity.com /campus/history/683/vicksburg.htm   (399 words)

  
 IDS Civil War Project 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Confederate forces were outnumbered and trapped between two Union forces, but Lee maneuvered his troops brilliantly and defeated Union General Joe Hooker at Chancellorsville.
Jennie Hodgers, who enlisted in the Union army as Albert Cashier, passes time in camp during the siege of Vicksburg.
Then they settled in and waited for the city, which was cut off from food supplies, to surrender.
www.cfsd.k12.az.us /~sdswww/images/IDS/IDSCivilWar.htm   (733 words)

  
 THIRTEENTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He died on 14 Sep 1976 in Forest City, IA. He was buried in West Cemetery, Rake, IA. He was educated Waldorf College in Forest City, IA.
Albert was cashier in a bank in Rake, IA, until 1933 -- then moved to Forest City, IA, so that children could attend Waldorf College.
Albert Martin ERDAHL and Amanda Josephine GUNDERSON had the following children:
home.att.net /~jtduxbury/erdahl/d26.htm   (165 words)

  
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