Discover

'Mary Burns' is the name of two historically significant women.

★ One Mary Burns was an American woman who disguised herself as a man in order to fight in Missouri Militia Cavalry regiment. However, her sex was discovered before the company departed to go to war.

★ The other Mary Burns was the British partner of Friedrich Engels, who introduced him and Karl Marx to much of the working class and its struggle in 19th-century Manchester, England.

Contents

Reference

Reference

★ The Civil War Book of List, Combined Books,1993 pg,179-182