Francis Clayton

Throughout the course of the war, Frances fought in 18 battles and served in both cavalry and artillery units. In February of 1862, she fought

Dr. Frances Louise Clayton, the white lesbian psychologist partnered with Lorde for twenty years, is my queer ancestor.

Frances Clalin Clayton was a tall slim housewife with 3 children when she did the unthinkable. Frances disguised herself as a man, and using the pseudonym

Frances Louisa Clayton (c. 1830 – after 1863), also recorded as Frances Clalin, was an American woman who purportedly disguised herself as a man to fight for

Francis or Frances Clayton may refer to: Frances Clayton, female Union soldier; Captain Francis Clayton of HMS Swinger (1872) · Francis Corder Clayton on List

Frances Louis Clayton – also known as Frances Clalin or Jack Williams – sought help to receive back pay and bounty money owed to her and her deceased husband.

Minnesotan Frances Louisa Clayton (sometimes spelled Clalin; born ca. 1830) was purported to have disguised herself as a man under the alias Jack Williams.

We think of soldiering during the Civil War as a man's fight. A couple hundred women, however, disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War.

Frances Clayton is an exception—a woman who served in the Union army by disguising herself as a man. In a popular carte de visite collected by soldiers at the