Fascinating Women Who Posed as Men to Do a ‘Man’s Job’

Jennie Hodgers

Known as Albert Cashier, Jennie Hodgers disguised herself as a man to fight in the American Civil War and was accepted as “one of the boys” while serving in the army. After the war had ended, the Irish-born immigrant continued his identity as a man and even voted in elections at a time when women did not have the right to vote.