Fact #15: First Black Woman in Military Pretended to be a Man

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Since women weren’t allowed to serve, she posed as a man. Enlisting under the name William Cathay, she told the recruiter she was a 22-year old cook. Somehow an Army surgeon didn’t realize she was a woman and determined that she was fit to serve.