Sarah Emma Edmonds Book Report

This report is about Sarah Emma Edmonds December 1841-september5, 1898. She was brave, and respected. She is 1 of the 400 women who fought in the Civil War. She is an inspiration to me because I want to be brave, I don’t want to be selfish, and I want to do things for the right reason. Sarah was born in New Brunswick some time in December 1841 to Isaac Edmonds from Scotland and Elizabeth Leeper of Ireland. She was raised in Magaguadavic. She was the youngest of six four sisters and one brother. Her brother was a epileptic so he wasn’t useful to her father. He was angry with him so when Sarah was born and he knew it was the last child. He became violent in his anger and often beat Sarah and her siblings. This is way Sarah always acted like

Sarah and three of her sisters would work in the field while one read then when Isaac came they would hide it. The book was about how Fanny became a man to save her husband she became a pirate captain and saved her husband. This is what gave Sarah her inspiration to become a man. Her father was to give her in marriage to an old widow neighbor in panic she asked a friend to help Sarah escape. Her name was Betsy and her friend Annie Moffit they lived in Salisbury. After than she move to Flint Michigan disked as a boy. She kept her disguise when she got there. She became a book sails men under the name Franklin Tomson also known as frank. She was at the train station one day when she heard from a newspaper boy that President Lincoln call for 7500 men volunteers. She wanted to fight so she signed up the first time she was to short But she tried again 3 months latter and stuffed straw in her shoes. She just barely made it but she was in the army. The 2 Michigan of the Potomac to be precise and was a soldier and