Sarah Emma Edmonds – Known in the Union during the Civil War as “Franklin Flint Thompson,” Sarah passed herself off as a man in several battles during the Maryland Campaign of 1862, including the Battle of Manassas and the Battle of Antietam. In 1865, she wrote about her experiences in her bestselling book "Nurse and Spy in the Union Army."
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