Sarah Emma Edmonds Was a Great Pretender
Author: Jones, Carrie
ISBN: 9780761353997
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Year First Published: 2011
Pages: 32
Dimensions: 279mm x 235mm x
Format: Hardback
Description:
Sarah Emma Edmonds is a unique woman in American history about whom there are no picture books. Bestseller Carrie Jones tells her story with wit and in terms kids will relate to.
This is a picture book biography of Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian-born woman who served as a spy in the Union Army during the Civil War. Edmonds's story has natural appeal. After coming to America, teenage Edmonds posed as a man, eventually lying her way into a post as a male battlefield nurse in the Union Army at age 17. Several times she posed as woman or as a slave (or both) and snuck behind Confederate lines. Since no one in her company knew she was actually a woman, many of her disguises required her to pretend to be a man pretending to be a woman. Eventually, she published her memoirs, was granted a federal pension, and became the only woman granted membership in the Civil War veterans' group, the Grand Army of the Republic.
ISBN: 9780761353997
Publisher: Walker Books Australia
Year First Published: 2011
Pages: 32
Dimensions: 279mm x 235mm x
Format: Hardback
Description:
Sarah Emma Edmonds is a unique woman in American history about whom there are no picture books. Bestseller Carrie Jones tells her story with wit and in terms kids will relate to.
This is a picture book biography of Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian-born woman who served as a spy in the Union Army during the Civil War. Edmonds's story has natural appeal. After coming to America, teenage Edmonds posed as a man, eventually lying her way into a post as a male battlefield nurse in the Union Army at age 17. Several times she posed as woman or as a slave (or both) and snuck behind Confederate lines. Since no one in her company knew she was actually a woman, many of her disguises required her to pretend to be a man pretending to be a woman. Eventually, she published her memoirs, was granted a federal pension, and became the only woman granted membership in the Civil War veterans' group, the Grand Army of the Republic.
