Williams, Cathay, 1844-approximately 1893
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Name (Latin)
Williams, Cathay, 1844-approximately 1893
Other forms of name
Williams, Cathy, 1844-approximately 1893
Cathay, William, 1844-approximately 1893
nnea Williams, Cathy, b. 1844
Date of birth
1844-09
Date of death
1893~
Place of birth
Independence (Mo.)
Place of death
Trinidad (Colo.)
Gender
female
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MARC
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Sources of Information
- Wikipedia, March 28, 2018(Cathay Williams; born September 1844, Independence, Missouri; died (approximately) in 1893, Trinidad, Colorado; pseudonym William Cathay; served in a supporting role (cook, seamstress, etc.) along with the Indiana 8th Infantry, during the Civil War throughout their travel through Arkansas, Louisiana and Georgia; transferred to Washington, DC and served under General Sherman's command; at the end of the war, she was working at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; she enlisted in the US Regular Army under the name, William Cathay, on Nov. 15, 1866 at St. Louis, as a Buffalo soldier, escaping detection as a woman; she was discovered after almost three years, and discharged on Oct. 14, 1869; she eventually settled in Trinidad, Colorado, working as a seamstress; an account of her life and military service was published in The St. Louis daily times, on Jan. 2, 1876; she died shortly after she was denied a military pension sometime in 1893; honors: In 2016, a bronze bust of Cathay Williams (with information about her life) was dedicated outside the Richard Allen Cultural Center, Leavenworth, Kansas; in 2018, The Private Cathay Williams monument was unveiled on the Walk of Honor at the National Infantry Museum)
- Tucker, P.T. Cathy Williams, 2002:CIP galley (born a slave in Independence, Missouri in 1844; she enlisted with Company A, 38th U.S. Infantry in November 1866 by disguising herself as a man and assuming the name William Cathay; she thus became a "buffalo soldier", serving in one of the six black units formed following the Civil War)
- Wikipedia, March 28, 2018(Cathay Williams; born September 1844, Independence, Missouri; died (approximately) in 1893, Trinidad, Colorado; pseudonym William Cathay; served in a supporting role (cook, seamstress, etc.) along with the Indiana 8th Infantry, during the Civil War throughout their travel through Arkansas, Louisiana and Georgia; transferred to Washington, DC and served under General Sherman's command; at the end of the war, she was working at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri; she enlisted in the US Regular Army under the name, William Cathay, on Nov. 15, 1866 at St. Louis, as a Buffalo soldier, escaping detection as a woman; she was discovered after almost three years, and discharged on Oct. 14, 1969; she eventually settled in Trinidad, Colorado, working as a seamstress; an account of her life and military service was published in The St. Louis daily times, on Jan. 2, 1876; she died shortly after she was denied a military pension sometime in 1893; honors: In 2016, a bronze bust of Cathay Williams (with information about her life) was dedicated outside the Richard Allen Cultural Center, Leavenworth, Kansas; in 2018, The Private Cathay Williams monument was unveiled on the Walk of Honor at the National Infantry Museum)
- African Americans in the U.S. Army website, viewed December 30, 2013:profiles of bravery (Cathay Williams; First African American female to enlist in the Army)
- buffalosoldier.net, viewed December 30, 2013:Female Buffalo Soldier- With Documents (Cathay Williams or William Cathay (Cathey); Private, Thirty-eighth U.S. Infantry 1866-1868; An Exceptional Woman)
- Daughter of a daughter of a queen, 2018:ECIP data view (Cathy Williams; former slave and first woman to ever serve in the US Army; served in the Union Army (disguised as a man) during the Civil War)
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Cathay Williams
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Cathay Williams (September 1844 – 1893) was an American soldier. An African-American woman, she enlisted in the United States Army under the pseudonym William Cathay. Williams became the first female to enlist and the only documented woman to serve in the U.S. Army while posing as a man during the Indian Wars.
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