Who am I?

Too many it seems odd that in the times of the revolution I would go to war because I am a woman. So what I want you to first understand is the circumstances in which many women and myself found ourselves at the time. For the federal army under President Victoriano Huerta, the male soldiers were forced to enlist and go fight. With the men not having a choice many of us were faced with having our husbands and brothers leave us for a long period. Many of us wanted to keep our families together. If I stayed home I would be unprotected in the middle of a tumultuous revolution. Some of the women here say that their husbands forced them to accompany them to battle.

While it is true many of us were forced by our husbands to accompany them many of us came voluntarily. By 1913 President Huerta began drafting women and thus forcing many of us to make contributions to the federal army. Many of us were placed in charge of tasks like working in the state controlled power mills, or serving as chefs to the troops.