Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

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Edmonds, S. Emma E.

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Nurse And Spy In The Union Army: Comprising The Adventures And Experiences Of A Woman In Hospitals, Camps And Battlefields

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Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men in the Union army, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As "Franklin Thompson" she joined the 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment in 1861, then fought in and witnessed some of the bloodiest struggles of the Civil War - from Blackburn's Ford and First Bull Run, through the Peninsula campaign with McClellan's Army of the Potomac, the battle of Fredericksburg, and then to the Kentucky campaign in 1863. When need arose, this woman embarked upon dangerous missions into Confederate territory to gather information and to survey enemy positions, sometimes in the guise of an Irish washerwoman or slave. As an infantry soldier and "male nurse", Sarah Edmonds chronicles the horrors of Civil War hospitals and the simple pastimes of camp life. Throughout her memoirs, this storyteller reveals her courage, dedication to the Union, and resourcefulness in sustaining her complicated masquerade.

Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army

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Northern Illinois Univ Pr

Nabu Press

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Andesite Press

Unsexed: or, The Female Soldier.  The Thrilling Adventures, Experiences And Escapes of A Woman, As Nurse, Spy And Scout. In Hospitals, Camps and Battle Fields By S. Emma E. Edmonds

Unsexed: or, The Female Soldier. The Thrilling Adventures, Experiences And Escapes of A Woman, As Nurse, Spy And Scout.: In Hospitals, Camps and Battle Fields

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published in 1864, this is the story of S. Emma E. Edmunds and the adventures that she experienced as spy, nurse, scout and even disguising herself as Contraband.

Unsexed: Or, The Female Soldier: The Thrilling Adventures, Experiences And Escapes Of A Woman, As Nurse, Spy And Scout, In Hospitals, Camps And Battle-Fields.

In her 1865 autobiography, Canadian-born Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds recounts her awe-inspiring life on the front lines of the American Civil War. As a young woman, Emma Edmonds ran away from home, escaping an abusive father and an enforced prearranged marriage. To avoid being discovered, she dressed in men's clothes and cut her hair and, eventually, assumed the full-time identity of a man, taking the name Franklin "Frank" Thompson. Frank worked for a time as a Bible salesman, but in 1865 joined the Second Michigan Volunteers as a nurse. Frank, already a master of disguise, eventually volunteered to be a spy and penetrated the enemy lines multiple times in various forms: as a slave, with silver nitrate painted skin to appear Black and, curiously, as a woman. Anticipating being discovered after convalescing from falling off a horse, Frank eventually deserted the army, and Sarah Emma Edmonds returned, enlisting in the army as a nurse. In 1867, Emma Edmonds married Mr. L. H. Seeye, a fellow Canadian, and eventually the two settled in La Porte, Texas, where they raised three children. In 1884, she attended a regimental reunion, as herself, without her disguise as Frank. Urged by her fellow soldiers, she filed for a full army pension. In 1885, she was awarded a pension from the army for both of her identities.    Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds was the only recognized woman in the Grand Army of the Republic. This is her incredible story.

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields

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Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

Nurse And Spy In The Union Army: Comprising The Adventures And Experiences Of A Woman In Hospitals, Camps And Battlefields

Nurse And Spy In The Union Army: Comprising The Adventures And Experiences Of A Woman In Hospitals, Camps And Battlefields

Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

Unsexed: or, The Female Soldier. The Thrilling Adventures, Experiences And Escapes of A Woman, As Nurse, Spy And Scout.: In Hospitals, Camps and Battle Fields

Unsexed: Or, The Female Soldier: The Thrilling Adventures, Experiences And Escapes Of A Woman, As Nurse, Spy And Scout, In Hospitals, Camps And Battle-Fields.

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields