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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 by Lauren Cook Burgess ISBN: 0-9634895-1-8 Publisher: Minerva Center Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A small but interesting book
Comment: I enjoyed this book. However, with only 110 pages, this book is very small. I thought it was going to be a little more detailed. Despite the size of the book it was interesting.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must-have about one of many women's role in the Civil War
Comment: Lauren Cook Burgess has given us an important look into the heart of one (of what is turning out to be many)woman's story who fought dressed as a man in the American Civil War. Crossing the gender line was not just a daytime exercise for these women and Wakeman's revelations about what it was like for her to live as a man amongst men who were serving their country.
Driven more by economics than patriotism, Wakeman's letters reveal a woman who desired to be economically self-sufficient and who embraced one of the few options available to women in the 1860s by cross-dressing. It is a fascinating read for what it tells us about gender, war, comraderie, and the economic stresses that women from poor backgrounds faced in the 19th century.
It is a miracle to have this information, scant as it may be, so that we can celebrate women's achievements in this bloody war that claimed so many young lives and literally changed the course of U.S. History.
Rating: 5
Summary: Loved It
Comment: If you want to know what it would of been like to have been poor and chose to go into the Army, this is the book. The amazing part is that this book reminds us how gender has nothing to do with duty and honor. I have read a lot of Civil War books and this one I will always remember. I can still picture her guarding the unfinished capitol building. You cheer her all the way through the book. The honor she is paid is all that she would have asked. We owe so much to those like her, men and women. The author should be commended for sharing Sarah Wakeman'experience with us.
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Title: They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by De Anne Blanton, Lauren M. Cook ISBN: 1400033152 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies by Elizabeth D. Leonard ISBN: 0140298584 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy: A Woman's Adventures in the Union Army by S. Emma E. Edmonds, Sarah Emma Edmonds ISBN: 0875805841 Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War by Bonnie Tsui ISBN: 0762724382 Publisher: Globe Pequot Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Women in the Civil War by Mary Elizabeth Massey, Jean V. Berlin ISBN: 0803282133 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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