Mary Tippee; Zouaves Unit; 114th Pennsylvania-Photograph taken at the Tyson Brothers studio in Gettysburg, wearing the Kearny Cross she received for gallantry on the field of Fredericksburg where she was wounded in the ankle by a bullet.
Mary Tebe / Mary Tippee / Mary Tippie. A vivandere was a combination nurse, cook, seamstress, and laundress who travelled with the Zouaves. A vivandiere adopted the style of clothing of her regiment, but with men’s pants under a knee-length skirt.
Most vivandiere’s were sent home when the heavy fighting started, so Mary is considered the only enlisted woman at Gettysburg where she carried water and treated the wounded during the heaviest of the fighting. She was in 13 battles, and carried a .44 caliber pistol.
