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In the early winter of 1863, a young Union soldier in a letter home mentioned a comrade who had taken ill: "The other night the Corporal had a baby, for the Corporal turned out to be a woman!" The now-unidentified woman from New Jersey had been in the Army almost year before being discovered. Though exact numbers are difficult to pinpoint, the authors' own research found nearly 240 cases where females joined the ranks during the War Between the States. With careful documentation and attention to detail, Blanton and Cook deliver a story that has been told before but mostly forgotten over the past century.

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