The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier by Laura Leedy Gansler

The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier

Laura Leedy Gansler

272 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring slow-paced
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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 thos...

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