6. Malinda Blalock
Sarah Malinda Blalock enlisted in the Confederate Army to fight in the American Civil War after her husband William Keith Blalock joined the 26th North Carolina Regiment. She used the name Samuel Blalock in 1862.
Malinda feared for her husband’s safety since the newlyweds had only been married for a year. So she marched with the same federal unit that he joined. She said she was her husband’s brother in order to get in.