Civil War Nurse and Spy S. Emma E. Edmonds

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide

Sarah Emma Edmonds served in the Civil War as a nurse and soldier, disguised as Franklin Thompson, evading detection as a woman for a year. This illustration is from her memoir, Nurse and Spy in the Union Army: The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields, by S. Emma E. Edmonds, published after the war was over. See: selection