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BY: MAE LUNING AND CLAIRE GOVER

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- Behind Rebel Lines By: Seymour Reit
- nursing-theory.org
-civilwarsaga.com

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My name is Sarah Emma Edmonds, but I changed it to Emma Edmonds when I ran away. Today I am running away. My father is abusive and wants to force me into marriage. I was born in Canada in 1841 and lived in New Brunswick for the first 16 years of my life. After running I will go to Moncton, Canada on the out skirts of New Brunswick.

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Today I enlisted myself in the Union Army in Flint, Michigan. I have to pray the scheme will work. Woman are not allowed in the army so I am posing as a man so I can be a front line nurse in the army and heal the sick or wounded. Ten days before I came Abe Lincoln asked for 10's of thousands of volunteers to join the Union Gray and now people were coming from every were. Sure there are lots of things I could do as a women to help out. But all of them would have me stuck on the side lines. I want to do something big something more. After a while I made it through and I am now Franklin Thompson front line nurse of the Union Grays.

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Today my close friend was killed in a battle between General McClellan's spies so, in an attempt to avenge my friend's death, I volunteered for his position of a top union spy and I got it. My job is to infiltrate the confederate army and bring back vital information.

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After it is all over I spent lots of time writing all my memories of being a spy and a nurse down and wrote my memoir. I then went back to Canada and meet Linus Seeyle who I then married and we went back to the U.S and settled down to raise a family.The Civil war shaped my life challenging me to take risks and to always play a bigger part. I'm proud that I participated in the war and it changed my life. I will never be the same again.

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Today I am under cover in a Confederate camp as a African-American laundry woman and I was able to steal very valuable papers from the officers pockets.

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After man days and nights of curing wounded or sick soldiers, I have become sick with Milaria however if I go into the Union hospital for help, my cover will be blown and my secret will be discovered, but if I leave I may never come back

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Today I was assigned the duty to go undercover as a slave named "Cuff" in a nearby Confederate camp.

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After living in Moncton New Brunswick, Canada for over a year I finally decided to travel to the US in hopes of not getting caught by my father. It took a bit less than a year, but I finally made it to Hartford, Connecticut and I now work as a bible salesman.

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I have finally decided to go to the private hospital in Cairo, Illinois where I will hopefully be treated for milaria. The only problem being when i'm well I may not be able to go back into the army because people may think of me  as a deserter.

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I have been in many historic battles since I became a nurse. Today I was in the Battle of Antietam as a front line nurse. Here I nursed a mortally heart soldier who revealed to me that he was really a women in  disguise.