A Woman's Secret in the Civil War

She fought in the Civil War… and no one knew she was a woman. She cut her hair.

Changed her name. And fooled the entire Union Army. Sarah Edmonds became Franklin Thompson

— a soldier in disguise. She marched. She fought. She even worked as a spy behind

Confederate lines. No one knew she was a woman. Not her commanders. Not her fellow soldiers.

Not even the medics who treated her. She served for two years… Then vanished. Her secret wasn’t

discovered until long after the war. And that’s just one of hundreds of stories the history

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