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Disguised as a male soldier, comforting the dying

  

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Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841 - 1898), a Canadian-born woman who is best known for serving with the Union Army during the American Civil War as both a nurse and a spy (first disguised as a man, "Frank Thompson"). Her account of various Civil War exploits was published in 1865 "Nurse and Spy in the Union Army" She is comforting a dying Union soldier who she discovers is really a woman. Vintage Illustration: Civil War; Women at war; Espionage. Vintage Illustration: Civil War
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Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841 - 1898), a Canadian-born woman who is best known for serving with the Union Army during the American Civil War as both a nurse and a spy (first disguised as a man, "Frank Thompson"). Her account of various Civil War exploits was published in 1865 "Nurse and Spy in the Union Army" She is comforting a dying Union soldier who she discovers is really a woman. Vintage Illustration: Civil War; Women at war; Espionage. Vintage Illustration: Civil War

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