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Sarah Emma Edmonds (born Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmondson, [1] married name Seelye, alias Franklin Flint Thompson; December 1841 – September 5, 1898) was a British North America-born woman who claimed to have served as a man with the Union Army as a nurse and spy during the American Civil War. Although recognized for her service by the United ...
The Civil War: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence.Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War.] [permanent dead link ] Washington, D.C., Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1999. United States Government, Intelligence in the Civil War. Washington, D ...
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy follows four women's stories throughout the American Civil War era - Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Belle Boyd, Emma Edmondson, Elizabeth Van Lew. [4] [2] Rose is a D.C. socialite who used her social standing to spy for the confederacy. [2] [1] Rose Belle Boyd freelanced as a spy for the confederacy as well. [2]
Canadian-born Sarah Emma Edmonds was a noted Union spy. One of the longest-living Canadians to have fought in the American Civil War was James Beach Moore, who died on August 29, 1931. Anderson Ruffin Abbott was a Toronto-born son of free people of color who had fled Alabama after their store was ransacked.
Frank Stringfellow (c. 1840 – June 8, 1913) was a Confederate officer and spy who survived the American Civil War, and married the sweetheart for whom he repeatedly risked his life to court – Emma Green. [1] After the war Stringfellow married Green, and became an Episcopal minister.
Sarah Edmonds as Franklin Thompson. Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841–1898) served with the Union Army disguised as a man named Frank Thompson. Nellie Graves was a female soldier who served in secret as a man in the Union Army alongside her close friend Fanny Wilson. Both saw action at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Their status ...
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Women on the Civil War Battlefront. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700614370 – via Google Books. Ford, Carin T. (2013). Women of the Civil War Through Primary Sources. Enslow Pub Inc. ISBN 978-0766041288 – via Google Books. Gansler, Laura (2007). The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War ...