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In "Krankenschwester und Spionin in der Unionsarmee" verbindet Sarah Emma Edmonds eindrucksvoll autobiografische Schilderung und literarische Kraft zu einem einzigartigen Zeitdokument des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs. Das Werk lässt den Leser eintauchen in die komplexen Erfahrungen einer Frau, die sich als Mann ausgab, um als Sanitäterin und Geheimagentin an vorderster Front der Unionstruppen zu dienen. Edmonds' genaue Beobachtungen und ihr authentischer Stil verleihen dem Memoirenbericht einen unmittelbaren, eindringlichen Ton, der zugleich über gesellschaftliche und militärische...

Soldier, nurse and spy for the Republic
This is an extraordinary book by any standards and no short description of it could possibly do justice to its author or her book. Sarah Edmonds was a lady from the northern states of America who, when the great Civil War broke out between the Union and the Confederacy, decided that being 'one who waits' was definitely not her style. Disguised as a man-a talent she had developed since childhood-she successfully enlisted in the 2nd Michigan Regiment and served in several campaigns including the battles at Bull Run, Antietam and Fredericksburg,...

Soldier, nurse and spy for the Republic
This is an extraordinary book by any standards and no short description of it could possibly do justice to its author or her book. Sarah Edmonds was a lady from the northern states of America who, when the great Civil War broke out between the Union and the Confederacy, decided that being 'one who waits' was definitely not her style. Disguised as a man-a talent she had developed since childhood-she successfully enlisted in the 2nd Michigan Regiment and served in several campaigns including the battles at Bull Run, Antietam and Fredericksburg,...

Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men in the Union army, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As Franklin Thompson she joined the 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment in 1861, then fought in and witnessed some of the bloodiest struggles of the Civil War - from Blackburn's Ford and First Bull Run, through the Peninsula campaign with McClellan's Army of the Potomac, the battle of Fredericksburg, and then to the Kentucky campaign in 1863.