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A person requires much courage if they are going to become a soldier. It took a woman of great courage and bravery to decide to join the Union army of the Civil War without nobody forcing her. She wanted to do it
Although most people didn’t know at the time, several women (at least 400) joined the army undercover during the Civil War and no one ever suspected it. At the age of 21, that is what Emma Edmonds (a Canadian-born) did. This book fictionalizes her true story.
Emma Edmonds enlisted under the name of Franklin Thompson, but it didn’t stop there. The journey of her first alias led her into becoming a reliable spy for the Union. She created new characters for herself on almost every mission the army sent her on, so that her old characters wouldn’t be recognized by the Rebel army. Bridget O’Shea, Irish peddler. Charles Mayberry, detective. Cuff, freed slave.Those are just a few of her undercover names & disguises. The lengths Emma went to in order to keep her true identity a secret for years from either army… amazing. All the different identities is one of the great things about the book because if you get bored of one character, before you know it, another character comes in. Sometimes I forget that this actually happened because the story is full of surprises.
This book is very educational and I recommend it to people 12 and up. I learned many things from this book and it is something I will never forget.
