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Pasadena MD: Minerva Center, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 110 pages, b&w illustrations. As the debate on the role of women in the military continues, an interesting historical footnote has been brought forth: the publication of the only known surviving set of letters of one of the estimated 400 women who disguised themselves as men to fight as soldiers in the Civil War. Born on a farm in New York in 1843, Wakeman was the oldest of nine children. Few details of her family life are known, nor what exactly precipitated her flight into the army, but glimpses of this strong-minded woman are provided throughout: "I am as independent as a hog on the ice. If it is God's will for me to fall in the field of battle, it is my will to go and never return home." Private Wakeman did not return home: she is buried under her masculine pseudonym. How many more women were buried as men? Civil War historian Burgess provides an intriguing introduction to what is sure to…
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An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers Hardcover - 1994
by Lauren C. Burgess; Foreword by James M. McPherson; Sarah Rosetta Wakeman
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By mid-1862, the Civil War had been underway for fourteen months.
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- Title An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers
- Author Lauren C. Burgess; Foreword by James M. McPherson; Sarah Rosetta Wakeman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 110
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Minerva Center, Pasadena, MD
- Date June 1994
- ISBN 9780963489517 / 0963489518
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.84 x 5.77 x 0.7 in (22.45 x 14.66 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94076283
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.7
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