Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields

von Sarah Edmonds

412 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Canadian-born Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds (nee Edmondson) recounts her sensational life on the front lines of the American Civil War. As a young woman she ran away from home. To avoid being discovered, she assumed the identity of a man, taking the name Franklin Frank Thompson. Frank worked for awhile as a Bible salesman, but in 1865 joined the Union Army 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 and, curiously, as a woman. Frank eventually deserted the army, and Sarah Emma Edmonds returned, enlisting in the army as a nurse.

• Reihe: Arcadia Publishing
• ISBN: 9781429016537
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.12.2008
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing