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Ridiculous History

Meet Albert Cashier, the Trans Man Who Fought for the Union in the Civil War

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Born as 'Jennie Hodgers' with a female sex assignment on December 25th, 1843, Albert Cashier emigrated to the United States lived as a man from his early teens on through the rest of his life. Despite the massive prejudices of the time, he managed to find support in his local communities, his friends and his fellow soldiers from the 95th Illinois Infantry both during and after the war, when the US government temporarily tried to revoke his pension.

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1:34.0

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1:48.0

One of the weird things about US history is that we have strange names for wars. We call this civil war the civil war, which is a weird name if you think about it for any sort of war, especially one that

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is a war of war.

2:18.0

Belicos and bloody. Here's a fact you may not know about the civil war. There are over 400 solidly documented cases of women disguising themselves as men and fighting as soldiers on both sides of the conflict, the union and the Confederacy.

2:35.0

Welcome to ridiculous history. My name is bet.

2:37.0

My name is Noel and then I'm just going to go ahead and get this out of the way get out of my system right up front. Sort of like Mulan.

2:43.0

You're getting something out of your system like Mulan. No, no, this case of like the women dressing up like man so they could fight in the war kind of like Mulan, which is about to have a live action adaptation.

2:54.0

I saw the teaser quite excited this episode is not brought to you by the Disney corporation. No, but it's an interesting distinction, Ben, because a lot of folks women dressed up in men's clothing and passed as men in order to either escape a harsh life and get the

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