Class Year

2018

Document Type

Blog Post

Publication Date

10-5-2015

Department 1

Civil War Institute

Abstract

Trigger warning: This article contains detail concerning rape and sexual assault.

On March 12, 1864, in the midst of a bloody war which had long overflowed its thimble, Margaret Brooks was returning from her home near Memphis, Tennessee when her wagon broke down in Nonconnah Creek. Not long after her driver left to find help, three rambunctious New Jersey cavalrymen, all white, approached Brooks, demanding her money. She was then raped multiple times at gunpoint [excerpt].

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This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.

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