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Mary and Molly Bell : ウィキペディア英語版 | Mary and Molly Bell Mary and Molly (or "Mollie") Bell were two young women from Pulaski County, Virginia who disguised themselves as men and fought in the American Civil War for the Confederacy. The pair successfully managed to keep their true gender hidden from their fellow soldiers and the military for two years while fighting in several major battles, until they were discovered and incarcerated. Soon thereafter, the women were released from prison and forced to return home.〔 ==Early life== Mary and Molly were cousins who grew up together in the mountains of southwestern Virginia on a typical farm, small and rural.〔 Living in the mountains, the girls learned how to ride horses, hunt, and scavenge for food. Since Molly and Mary grew up working on the farm and helping provide for their family, they were accustomed to the hard work and dedication that would later be required of them in the military. In the fall of 1862, the uncle of Mary and Molly decided to abandon his loyalties to Virginia and to the Confederacy. He left home to fight for the Union, based on his belief that the Confederacy would lose the war. Both cousins had a great deal of patriotism for their homeland and were infuriated when they realized what their uncle had done.〔 In order to compensate for their uncle's disloyalty, twenty-two-year-old Molly, the more passionate and impulsive leader of the two, devised a plan for the pair to disguise themselves as men and enlist in the Confederate Army. Molly was able to convince Mary, only fifteen years old at the time and more reserved than her cousin, to enlist with her.〔
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