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Article: Sarah Emma Edmonds. Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy: a Woman's Adventures in the Union Army.(Book Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- March 22, 2001
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Sarah Emma Edmonds. Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. Pp. 266. Annotations. Illustrations. Index. Introduction. Cloth, $38.00; paper, $18.00.
Women are showing up as participants in the American Civil War, far and away more ubiquitous and active than the Mary Todd Lincolns and Mary Surratts of old. For a powerful firsthand account of the adventures of a woman soldier, nurse, and spy, Sarah Edmonds's memoir is not to be missed.
Edmonds's Memoirs is the sole surviving Union memoir (that we know of) by a woman who disguised herself as a man (Franklin Thompson, ...