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<p><p>jennie Hodgers Dressed As A Boy For The First Time In Order To Help Support Her Impoverished Irish Family With A Shepherd&#8217;s 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. <p>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&#151;a Woman Sometimes At War With Her Own Secrets. Author&#8217;s Note, Bibliography.<p></p><h3>kathleen Isaacs - Children's Literature</h3><p>jennie Hodgers Put On Boy's Clothes To Herd Sheep As A Girl In Ireland, Continued To Dress And Work As A Boy When She Immigrated To The United States, Enlisted In The U

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Author

Durrant, Lynda

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781415664131

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Adventure, Historical Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.1 / 5 (354 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13