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- Nancy Hart Douglas (1846–c. 1902 [1913 (?)]) was a scout, guide, and spy for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Serving first with the Moccasin Rangers, a pro-Confederate guerrilla group in present-day West Virginia, she later joined the Confederate Army and continued to serve as a guide and spy under General Stonewall Jackson.
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In the decades after the Revolution, many of Hart’s adventures became the stuff of legend and inspiration. During the Civil War, a band of Georgia women formed a militia unit named in honor of Nancy Hart, illustrating how the legacy of Hart’s heroism has lived on.
Apr 24, 2024 · She was well able to handle a rifle in the fierce and bloody internecine fighting that beset Georgia during the American Revolution. Nancy Hart was a stalwart supporter of the Whig cause. A number of stories of her exploits in the war grew up and circulated for years before being written down.
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Jun 25, 2018 · Between 1861 and 1865, a group of 40 LaGrange women organized an all-woman militia, the Nancy Harts. Organized in military formations and skilled in marksmanship and battle tactics, the women...
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), a group of women in LaGrange, Georgia founded an all-female militia company, which they named the Nancy Harts, to defend the town from the Union Army. Most of the men of fighting age had been drawn off to war.
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- 1830, Henderson County, Kentucky, U.S.
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Sep 17, 2010 · The Nancy Harts militia, formed in LaGrange during the first weeks of the Civil War (1861-65), was a female military unit organized by the wives of Confederate soldiers to protect the home front. On April 26, 1861, the LaGrange Light Guards of the Fourth Georgia Infantry, comprising men mostly from LaGrange, in Troup County, left home to fight ...
Discover the story of The Nancy Harts, LaGrange legends who defended the city during the Civil War. In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, the men of LaGrange (around 1,300 of them) left to serve the Confederate Army.
Aug 12, 2005 · During the Civil War (1861-65), a group of women in LaGrange founded a militia company named the Nancy Harts to defend the town from the Union army. In 1997 Hart was inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement .
