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===Name: Elizabeth Ann Honbarger, a Seventeen year-old posing as a man in the Civil War fighting for the Union, and the abolition of slavery. I ran away from home to serve in the war but maybe I bit off more than I could chew. I eat like a man, talk like a man, treated like a man. It's distracting but somehow I still know the purpose of my being here and the prejudice that I'm fighting against, towards women and both free and not free slaves.===

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=A page from the journal of Elizabeth Ann Honbarger= = =

Entry Number 1:
==Dear Diary, Today is enrollment day. I had to make up a fake name and use fake Birth Certificate and Social Security card. I got the idea of posing as a man from a woman who already did before me, Frances Clayton, who served in the Union army for two years in the artillery and calvary units. She posed as a man and fooled everyone in her unit, the General, fellow soldiers and even her doctor until she went to a physical exam and the doctor examining her discovered that in fact she was a woman.== ==She was discharged from the army. When she died, many years later, there was no flag on her casket to signify her loyality to her country. I really do think that everyone serving in the army deserves the recognition that they earned.==

Entry Number 2:
==Dear Diary, Today is going to be my first day on the battlefield. I'm on the search and rescue team, I was put on that team because that is where they put new recruits. As I ride through the battlefield on the carriage I think of all my heros. I think of Angelina and Sarah Grimke and how they made such a difference for women and slaves everywhere. They taught me that it is okay to learn and still be a woman, and I'm sure that they have influenced the many slaves that have heard of the sisters.== ==They were the daughter of a wealthy South Carolina plantation family, Sarah and Angelina did not like the idea of slavery. In the 1820s, Sarah and Angelina, moved north to Philadelphia and converted to a religon called the Quaker. They are very inspirational to me and most of the women I found out are really women in the army. ==

Entry Number 3: Dear Diary, I think that General Oliver Howard knows I am a woman. I'll try to hid it but we are about to fight at Gettysburg and I doubt that he would want to lose me.
==Oh yeah I'm supposed to recieve the Medal of Honor and guess who is going to give it to me, Abraham Lincoln! After the Awards cermony I'm going to go home. I'm really hoping that my family is proud of all my accomplishments and I can not wait to tell them all of my stories. ==

Essential Questions
==1. How does one's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s? It determines the side that they are on, like someone who believes in slavery wouldn't like abolitionists of the 1850's and the 1860's.==