Gansler, Laura Leedy. The mysterious Private Thompson; the double life of Sarah Emma Edmons, Civil War soldier.GANSLER, Laura Leedy. The mysterious Private Thompson; the double life of Sarah Emma Edmons, Civil War soldier. Univ. of Nebraska, Bison Books. 255p. illus, notes, bibliog. index, c2005. 978-0-8032-5988-1. $19.95. SA * Faced with an unacceptable arranged marriage The purpose of an arranged marriage is to form a new family unit by marriage while respecting the chastity of all people involved. As suggested by the term, an arranged marriage is typically arranged by someone other than the persons getting married, curtailing or avoiding the , Sarah Emma Edmonds fled her family home in New Brunswick New Brunswick, province, Canada New Brunswick, province (2001 pop. 729,498), 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface, E Canada. , Canada when she was 17. Basing her actions on a novel she had read years earlier, Emma dressed as a man and, in this disguise, became a successful traveling bookseller, a common occupation at the time. Caught up in the volunteering fervor at the beginning of the Civil War, Emma enlisted in a Michigan regiment in the spring of 1861. She apparently got past the physical examination; in the rush to enroll the volunteers, the induction physical was cursory cur·so·ry adj. Performed with haste and scant attention to detail: a cursory glance at the headlines. [Late Latin curs at best. Emma became "Private Frank Thompson Frank Thompson, Jr. (July 26, 1918, Trenton, New Jersey - July 22, 1989, Bethesda, Maryland) was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey. Thompson represented New Jersey's At-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to " in the Union army. She lasted almost two years. She left quietly, "deserted," in December 1862, later giving as an excuse that she was ill, needed medical care, and did not want the Army doctors to discover her ruse Ruse (r  `sĕ), city (1993 pop. 170,209), NE Bulgaria, on the Danube River bordering Romania. The chief river port of Bulgaria, it is also an industrial and communications center. . In her time at the front, Emma managed to avoid
shooting at the enemy. She volunteered to care for the wounded, served
as a mail carrier, and worked in the hospitals, always avoiding having
to use her weapon. After the war, Emma wrote a book, Nurse and Spy, in
which she claimed that she had been a spy as well as a soldier. That she
was a spy is doubtful, but she was eventually officially recognized as
having been a soldier and she received the government pension that was
her due. Gansler does an admirable job of supplying the panorama of the
Civil War, its generals and its campaigns, as a background to
Emma's role as a soldier. This book is highly recommended. Patricia
Moore, Chestnut Hill Chestnut Hill may refer to:In geography:
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