A few years ago, my mother and our relatives gathered up a book named "The Holy Land of New Brunswick".
There are more than 900 pages of information, from the year 1432 to the present:
War Story, Love Story, Story about Horse Thief, Pun of Cows, Bath Tub Jin, Prohibited Story. You get pictures. But the story of Emma's great aunt, Sarah Edmonds in 1854, returned with frustration with her father's marriage plan.
She was trained once in Salisbury as a Milner. After that, I worked a short time at Fredricton and Saint John. Concerned that her father might find her, she turned to the appearance of a young man using the name "Franklin Johnson".
That was a camouflage that she was using the sale of the Bible between NB and NS, Ct of Hartford and Flintomi. At the beginning of the civil war, she enlisted as a male nurse in Allied Forces, Second Infantry Regiment in 1861.
She was active in Bull Run of Bull Run, Fredricksburg, Vicksburg. She acquired a heroic position as a nurse, secret agent, and temporary rider. Some of her mission will take her behind the enemy as a spy disguised as a Negro woman, an Irish pedestrian, a rebellious descendant, and a clerk. Her camouflage was not released until she left the army and wrote her book "Nurse and Spy".
On 7th July 1884 President Chester Arthur signed a legislation approved by Congress and granted pension to Mrs. Sarah EE Seelye, another name for Franklin Thompson.
"Congressional Senators and Representatives announced that the Interior Minister is heavy and in the role of the pension Sarah EE Edmonds alias aka Franklin Thompson Company F in the second half of Company F, the Michigan infantry volunteer second regiment At a rate of 12 dollars per month "
Sarah was acquired by George B McLaren Post 9, thereby becoming the sole female member of the Grand Army of the Republic. She was honored with Cemetary Washington Cemetery in Houston, Texas. A special bronze nameplate acknowledged the heroink and her mark marked Emma E Seelye, Army Nurse. Many articles and stories are posted in the life of Sarah, aka Franklin Thompson.
For reference, please refer to the following.
Emma E. Edmonds, Hartford CT 1865's "Nurse and Spy"
Hoelins New York's "Girl Soldier ans Spy"
"The Rode with the Generals" by Dannett, NY
"Adventure and experience of women in hospitals, camps, fighting" in field 1865
"Amazons and Military Maids" by Wainwright of Winchester, MA
Mary Peck NS's "Sweet With Bitter"
In 1990, Sara Emma Evelyn Edmonds Sealy joined the New Brunswick Women's Hall of Fame.
