Sarah Emma Edmonds wants to join the Union Army but can't because she's a woman. So she's going to impersonate a man-who will later impersonate a woman! Will sh

Autobiography of a woman who masqueraded as a man.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, nearly everybody was caught up in patriotic fervor—men and women, Union and Confederate. Many women supported soldiers throu

Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absen

Sarah Emma Edmonds enlisted because she believed in the Union cause; Melverina Peppercorn joined to stay near her twin brother. Although women were not allowed