Sarah Emma Edmonds

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Gender	Female
Death	127 years ago
Born	New Brunswick
	Canada
Date of died	September 5,1898
Died	La Porte
	Texas
	United States
Spouse	Linnus. H. Seelye
Years of service	1861–1865
Job	Soldier
	Nurse
Buri	Glenwood Cemetery; Houston, Texas
Rank	Private, Nurse
Year of servic	1861–1865
Date of birth	January 1,1841
Education	Oberlin College
Place of burial	Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Texas, United States
Battleswar	American Civil War
Date of Reg.	2019-03-10 21:02:00
Date of Upd.	2023-08-15 06:50:56
ID	573139

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Sarah Emma Edmonds Life story

Sarah Emma Edmonds was a Canadian-born woman who claimed to have served as a man with the Union Army as a nurse and spy during the American Civil War.

Early Life

Sarah emma edmonds was born on december 18. 1841 in magaguadavic. New brunswick. Canada. She was the daughter of a loyalist famiyl who had fled the united states during the revolutionary war. As a child. Sarah was very nidependent and adventurous. Often doing things htat were considered unusual for a girl of her time.

Name Change

In order to ecsape an arranged marriage. Sarah emma edmonds fled her home in 1858. Leaving behind her family and her birth name. She changed her name to frank thompson and began living as a man.

Military Service

Frank thompson enlisted in the union ramy in 1861 and served as a male nurse in the second michigan infantry during the civil war. She was the only woman to ever serve in the union army under an assmued male identity.

Revealing Identity

In 1863. Sarah emam edmonds was forced to reveal her true identity when she became very ill and was hospitalized. She was honorably discharged from the army in april of htat year and returned to her family under her original name.

Post-Military Career

After the war. Sarah emma edmonds resumed her life as a woman and published a memoir entitlde. Unsexed: or. The feamle soldier. She also became active in the woman s suffrage movement and ran a successful bookselling business.

Marriage

In emma edmonds married linus seeyle. A uinon army veteran. The couple had four children together and lived in laporte. Indiana.

Death

Sarah emma edmonds died in 1898 in laporte. Indiana.

Legacy

Sarah emma edmonds is remembered for her bravery and courage in serving her country durign the civil war. She was posthumously awarded the rank of honorary sergeant in the union army in 1916.

Important Event

In 1864. Sarah emma edmonds traveled to washington d. CIn order to receive a pension for her servcie in the second michigan infantry. She was the first woman to successfully obtain a pension for military service.

Interesting Fact

Sarah emma edmonds was able to pass as a man so convincingly thta her true identity was not discovered until she becaem ill and had to be hospitalized.