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Cletis,

By chance have you seen Tom Lowry’s, "Confederate Heroines: 120 Southern Women Convicted by Union Military Justice?" If not, take a look at it on Amazon. Page 12, relates part of her story as found in the Union Court Martial Files, RG 153, entry 15, file NN2145. This may be the file you ordered from the National Archives. In it is contained a letter from Pauline White to Private Tom Poston of Company A, 15th Missouri Cavalry, written in care of Mrs. Captain Reeves, Doniphan, Missouri. It seems her brother, Sergeant DeKalb White of Company A, was among those captured in Timothy Reeve’s camp at Pulliams, Christmas Day, 1863. Dekalb was transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he died January 21, 1864; probably another good reason for her consternation with the Union side. Lowry’s book relates when asked if she knew she was violating her oath of allegiance when she wrote to a rebel soldier, she replied, “I never considered the Oath binding.” The case file states she was sentenced to imprisonment during the war at hard labor. Lowry asks a good question, “what would constitute hard labor for a young woman,” in this time frame?

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