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Sarah Emma Edmonds (born Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmondson, [1] married name Seelye, alias Franklin Flint Thompson; December 1841 – September 5, 1898) was a British North America -born woman who claimed to have served as a man with the Union Army as a nurse and spy during the American Civil War.
Sarah Emma Edmondson was born in New Brunswick, Canada in December of 1841. Her father was a farmer who had been hoping for a son to help him with the crops; as a result, he resented his daughter and treated her badly.
Mar 14, 2017 · In male attire, Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds sold Bibles in the northeastern United States under the name Frank Thompson prior to enlisting for the Civil War. Edmonds resumed her female identity in the middle of the war to undergo treatment for malaria, then worked as a nurse until war's end.
Sarah Edmonds, American soldier who fought, disguised as a man, in the Civil War. She took part in a number of battles, and at least twice she undertook intelligence missions behind Confederate lines. Edmonds later worked as a nurse. Learn more about her life.
May 26, 2016 · Sarah Emma Edmonds (aka Franklin Thompson), nurse, soldier, master of disguise (born December 1841 in the Magaguadavic settlement, New Brunswick; died 5 September 1898 in LaPorte, Texas). Edmonds disguised herself as a man and served as a male nurse in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Sep 19, 2016 · In her memoir Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, Sarah Emma Edmonds, a woman fighting in the Union Army disguised as a man, employed florid diction and a subtle romantic flare to illustrate an emotional and confounding moment in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam: discovering another woman undercover. Edmonds writes of the “pale, sweet ...
Feb 1, 2019 · Learn about Sarah Emma Edmonds, the woman who served as a Civil War soldier as Frank Thompson, and wrote about her war experiences.
