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“I Was Detected by My Laugh”: The Brief Military Career of Margaret Cathrine Murphy

“I Was Detected by My Laugh”: The Brief Military Career of Margaret Cathrine Murphy

CW: sexual violence and self-harm On May 17, 1863, Margaret Cathrine Murphy found herself in an unlikely situation: being interrogated as a spy while imprisoned in Annapolis. As she explained, she was suspected of being a rebel spy, not for harming the Union cause, but for dressing as a man ...
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