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Sarah Emma Edmonds may be one of the greatest masters of disguise in military history, as she was able to switch from being a betrothed 17-year old girl in New Brunswick, to a 21-year old male volunteer named Frank Thompson, to a male slave and then to a female Irish peddler woman, and then back to a woman and survived to tell the tale.
Sit back and listen to the latest episode “The Tombs of the Unknown Crossdressers" - a tale of women who served heroically and died in the American Civil War only to be forgotten thus becoming yet another Missing Chapter.
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Sarah Emma Edmonds may be one of the greatest masters of disguise in military history, as she was able to switch from being a betrothed 17-year old girl in New Brunswick, to a 21-year old male volunteer named Frank Thompson, to a male slave and then to a female Irish peddler woman, and then back to a woman and survived to tell the tale.
Sit back and listen to the latest episode “The Tombs of the Unknown Crossdressers" - a tale of women who served heroically and died in the American Civil War only to be forgotten thus becoming yet another Missing Chapter.
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