Hoop Skirts Passed Girl Smugglers Over Union Line, St. Joseph Newspaper, 1930
Entry/Object ID
AM1990.1.69
Scope and Content
Hoop Skirts Passed Girl Smugglers Over Union Line, St. Joseph Newspaper, 1930
St. Joseph woman tells of youthful thrills at secreting clothes for soldiers under spacious dresses--romance in the adventure.
This story of the adventures of girls in the Civil War is reported as told by Mrs. Victoria Johnson Quarles to Mrs. J. N. Hall. Mrs. Quaries was only nineteen years old when these stirring adventures occurred, and only her brilliant memory of details makes this vivid story possible.
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Civil wars
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St. Joseph, Missouri, Hoop skirts, Girl Smugglers, Secreting Clothes for soldiers, St. Joseph Gazette
