- This Story is about a girl name emma edmonds. emma was a canadian girl, she moved to flint Michigan.She cut her hair short and joined the union army under the name of Franklin Thompson as a nurse.Asked to go on a special mission for the union. she disguised herself as a slave and worked to build walls and quaker cannons (fake wooden cannons)she too notes and put them in her shoe and ran back to the headquarters.Days later she is asked again to go behind rebel lines this time as a irish peddler she found out about the plans and that a trader was actually a spy for the rebel army, relaying this after relaying this to McClellan she goes back to be a nurse.The next time she has to go spying she goes as a slave but as a woman.She finds that they are planning a attack and tells McClellan. after this she becomes sick and after the union declines leave she runs away Franklin Thopson in declared AWOL.After the war she goes to court to receive a veteran pension of 11 dollars a month.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
behind rebel lines
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