Sarah Emma Edmonds - Woman Who Fought in the Civil War

Sarah Emma Edmonds - Woman Who Fought in the Civil War Known for:â serving in the Civil War by camouflaging herself as a man; composing a post-Civil War book about her wartime encounters Dates:â - Sarah Emma Edmonds was conceived Edmonson or Edmondson in New Brunswick, Canada in December 1841. Her dad was Isaac Edmon(d)son and her mom Elizabeth Leepers.â Early Life Sarah grew up working in the fields with her family and was typically wearing boys’ attire doing so. She left home to keep away from a marriage prompted by her father. Eventually, she started dressing as a man, selling Bibles, and calling herself Franklin Thompson. She moved to Flint, Michigan as an aspect of her responsibilities, and there she chose to join Company F of the Second Michigan Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, still as Franklin Thompson. During the War She effectively avoiding location as a lady for a year, however some individual troopers appear to have suspected. She took an interest in the Battle of Blackburns Ford, First Bull Run/Manassas, the Peninsular Campaign, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. Once in a while, she served in the limit of an attendant, and some of the time all the more effectively in the campaign. According to her journals, she at times filled in as a government operative, masked as a lady (Bridget OShea), a kid, a dark lady or a dark man. She may have made 11 excursions behind Confederate lines. At Antietam, treating one warrior, she understood that it was another lady in mask, and consented to cover the fighter with the goal that none would find her genuine personality. She abandoned in Lebanon in April 1863. There’s been some hypothesis that her renunciation was to join James Reid, another trooper who left, giving as an explanation that his significant other was wiped out. Subsequent to abandoning, she worked - as Sarah Edmonds - as a medical attendant for the U.S. Christian Commission. Edmonds distributed her form of her administration - with numerous embellishments - in 1865 as Nurse and Spy in the Union Army. She gave continues from her book to social orders established to help veterans of the war. Living day to day After the War At Harpers Ferry, while nursing, she had met Linus Seelye, and they wedded in 1867, first living in Cleveland, later moving around to different states including Michigan, Louisiana, Illinois, and Texas. Their three kids passed on youthful and they received two children. In 1882 she started to request of for an annuity as a veteran, requesting help with her interest from numerous who had served in the military with her. She was allowed one of every 1884 under her new hitched name, Sarah E. E. Seelye, including back compensation and including expelling the assignment of betrayer from Franklin Thomas’ records. She moved to Texas, where she was conceded into the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic), the main lady to be conceded. Sarah kicked the bucket a couple of years after the fact in Texas on September 5, 1898. We are aware of Sarah Emma Edmonds fundamentally through her own book, through records gathered to protect her annuity guarantee, and through journals of two men with whom she served. Book reference Common War Battle from the Perspective of a Nurse - S. Emma Edmondsâ -a portion from Edmonds 1865 diary recounting to the narrative of the Battle of Bull Run, 1861 (additionally called first Manassas)Moss, Marissa. Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero. Ages 9-12.Sequin, Marilyn. Where Duty Calls: The Story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Soldier and Spy in the Union Army. Young Adult Fiction.Reil, Seymour. Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy. Ages 9-12.Edmonds, S. Emma. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps and Battle-Fields.â 1865.