The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier PUB200210 ISBN10: 044050841X

ISBN10: 044050841X

Betrayals is also pure joy to read -- a book that will make you laugh out loud

A self-styled "intellectual freedom fighter

and formation

His dramatic disappearance (a probable suicide) at the age of forty-one

The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier PUB200210 ISBN10: 044050841XResurrecting 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 those of the men she served with, Laura Leedy Gansler recreates Edmonds's experience in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, including both the First and the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Peninsula