Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy
Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy

Author: Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, 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 some of the bloodiest struggles of the Civil War, from the first battle of Bull Run to the Kentucky Campaign of 1863. This daring woman embarked upon dangerous missions into Confederate territory to gather information and to survey enemy positions, sometimes in the guise of a slave or Irish washerwoman, sometimes in Confederate uniform. Through her experiences as a "male nurse" and Union soldier, Edmonds depicts the horrors of Civil War hospitals and the simple pastimes of camp life. Throughout her impassioned account, first published in 1865, this enthralling storyteller reveals her courage, dedication to the Union, and resourcefulness in concealing her identity. Three years after her death, Edmonds's body was reinterred with military honors by her comrades, who recognized in her a "strong, healthy, and robust soldier, ever willing and ready for duty." The introduction and annotations by Elizabeth D. Leonard, a leading authority on Civil War women, support and amplify Edmonds's account. Challenging established views of the Civil War soldier, Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy is compelling reading, especially for those interested in the Civil War, women's history, American studies, and military history.

Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars; Ed. from the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness Von Olnhausen
Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars; Ed. from the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness Von Olnhausen

Author: James Phinney Munroe

Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

Published: 2018-11-08

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780344867804

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Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars; Ed. from the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness Von Olnhausen
Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars; Ed. from the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness Von Olnhausen

Author: James Phinney Munroe

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9781298790897

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Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars; Ed. from the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness Von Olnhausen
Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wars; Ed. from the Diary and Correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness Von Olnhausen

Author: Mary Phinney von Olnhausen

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781230307817

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX B IN the recently published " Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch" [by his son, Vincent Y. Bowditch, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902] appears the following letter [vol. ii. p. 315]: -- TO MRS. GEORGE L. STEARNS. May 9, 1887. Dear Mrs. Stearns, -- I forgot to leave with you the riddle 1 found in a book of autographs made chiefly between the years 1610 and 1630. The riddle has the date of 1742, and is signed by one Fulda, at that time the possessor of the precious heirlooms of the family Von Olnhausen; and which had been carefully kept and transmitted to sons of that name for one hundred and thirty-two years. The Von Olnhausens dated their origin from a gallant Crusader, Heinrich Olnhausen, who in 1388 had been made " Knight of the Golden Spur" at Jerusalem. The autographs collected by one of his descendants (an earnest student, between 1610 and 1630) of all the great personages (nobility with their illuminated coats of arms, professors 1 A M O R E S. 6. Sex fuge, 5. Quinque tene, 4. Quatuor fac, Reliqua (RES) tibi sequcntur. of many universities, pastors of churches, great physicians, and lettered young companions) were in two volumes, and by marriage had come into Fulda's hands. He, with a true instinct, felt that they ought to be in the hands of his young relative, the male descendant of the Von Olnhausens. Therefore in 1742 he transferred them to John Frederick Olnhausen, telling him that he hoped that these precious relics of the good youth of 1610 would stimulate his loving descendants to behave as heroically as his predecessors had done, and he gave the enclosed riddle, which as I have before stated I forgot to leave. To finish my story, I ought to tell you how they came into my possession. Some few years...