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Nurse and Spy in the Union Army - Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields (Paperback)
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Nurse and Spy in the Union Army - Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields (Paperback)
Series: Civil War
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In her 1865 autobiography, Canadian-born Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds
(nee Edmonson) recounts her sensational 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 arranged 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. Fearing
discovery after recuperating 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. She became the only recognized woman in the
Grand Army of the Republic.
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