Frances Elizabeth Quinn was an Irish-born Union Civil War soldier who fought in both the infantry and cavalry.
Shortly after arriving in Illinois, her mother gave birth to a brother, named Thomas, and then both parents died, leaving the children in the care of two separate families.
She returned to La Moille to find her brother had run away to join the army at the age of fourteen, in the 52nd Illinois Infantry Regiment.
[2] Quinn adopted the name B. Frank Miller, and enlisted in a three-month unit in Indiana, disguising herself as a man.
She left to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where she located a recruiting sergeant, and entered into a cavalry division as a teamster.
[1] While on duty, she came across another female soldier whom she had known in her brief time in the 2nd Cavalry, who had taken the name of Frank Morton, alias Sarah Bradbury.
She stayed in the Nashville hospital until her leg healed, and then received her pay and lived in Ohio until the war ended.
[1] A reporter from the Louisville Journal describes Quinn as being "Small, with auburn hair, blue eyes, and a complexion tanned by the sun.