“I Was Detected by My Laugh”: The Brief Military Career of Margaret Cathrine Murphy (opens in new tab)

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 and enlisting in the Union … Read More Read More The post “I Was Detected by My Laugh”: The Brief Military Career of Margaret Cathrine Murphy appeared first on The Journal of the Civil War Era.