There are hundreds of documented cases of women who fought disguised as men during the Civil War. Tracey McIntire and Audrey Scanlan-Teller will discuss and share documentation of some of the more fascinating women, and talk about how they accomplished their masquerade and what motivated them to fight alongside men.

Tracey is a Battlefield Ambassador at Antietam National Battlefield, as well as a certified master docent at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. She is an active Civil War living historian. Audrey has portrayed a Civil war enlisted soldier for historical interpretive demonstrations since 2005, and is also a Battlefield Ambassador at Antietam, and a docent at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.

The event will take place inside Pine Grove Chapel, built in 1846 as the local Presbyterian Church, with the school held in the basement. During the Civil War, a troop of New Jersey soldiers were housed there (the only public building in town at the time) to guard the railroad. Enjoy the interesting architecture, antique furniture, original windows, and imagine Civil War Soldiers sleeping on the benches of this historic building, which is only open to the public on special occasions.