Resurrecting a lost hero of the Civil War; The Mysterious Private Thompson tells the remarkable story of Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841–98); who disguised herself as a man and defended her country at a time of war. Drawing on Edmonds's journals and those of the men she served with; Laura Leedy Gansler recreates Edmonds’s experience in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War; including both the First and the Second Battle of Bull Run; the Peninsula Campaign; and the Battle of Fredericksburg; during which she served with distinction in combat as a “male†nurse and braved enemy fire as a mail carrier. Gansler also investigates Edmonds's claim to have been a spy; going behind enemy lines disguised as a slave (by staining her skin with silver nitrate); as a Confederate soldier; and even; ironically; as a peddler woman.
#6092002 in Books University of Nebraska Press 2010-06-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x 1.00 x 5.80l; 1.05 #File Name: 0803229860272 pages
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