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In 1861, Sarah Emma Edmonds, disguised as a man, served in the Union Army and became one of the first women to receive a military pension.
In 1861, Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian-born woman who settled in Flint, enlisted in the Union Army under the alias Franklin Thompson, serving nearly two years with the 2nd Michigan Infantry’s Company F, the Flint Union Greys.
Disguised as a man, she performed combat-related duties including tending to wounded soldiers and carrying the injured from battlefields.
Her identity was revealed after the war, but her comrades supported her, helping her become one of the first women to receive a military pension from Congress.
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En 1861, Sarah Emma Edmonds, disfrazada como un hombre, sirvió en el Ejército de la Unión y se convirtió en una de las primeras mujeres en recibir una pensión militar.