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Using the alias of Franklin Thompson, enlisted as a private in the Second Michigan Infantry in Detroit.
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Sarah Edmonds participated in the first Battle of Bull Run.
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Edmonds revealed her true identity to Jerome John Robbins (medical steward, 2nd Michigan).
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Edmonds and the 2nd Michigan were transfered to the Army of the Cumberland and were sent to Kentucky.
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Sarah Edmonds worked as a male feild nurse during this part of the Civil War. This went opn from April to July.
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Edmonds procured supplies for the hospitals.
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Sarah Edmonds became regimental postmaster.
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Sarah Edmonds regiment came under heavy fire. She was working as a stretcher bearer. For hours in the rain, her and her fellow nurses moved people one by onee off the battle feild and into helping hands.
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Edmonds was an orderly for “General K.” at the Battle of Hanover Courthouse.
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Edmonds witnesses Prof. Thaddeus Lowe’s use of a balloon which was successful in reporting Confederate troop movements.
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Edmonds assisted , Colonel Orlando M. Poe ,an officer serving under General George McClellan at Fredericksburg by "disguising" herself as a woman and playing her roll behind enemy lines.
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Edmonds was sent on second spy mission.This time she disguised herself as an Irish peddler with the alias of Bridget O'Shea. She sold goods to the Confederate Army and gained Valuable information. Later on, She stole a horse that she called "Rebel".
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In April of 1863 Sarah Edmonds disappeared from the ranks because while working as a feild nurse she had developed Malaria. She knew that her treatment would cause the discovery of her gender.
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This was the origonal time that "The Female Spy of the Union Army" was published by Boston publisher DeWolfe, Fiske, & Co.
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Sarah Edmonds joined the Christian Commission and worked at a hospital in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia to help wounded soldiers recover from the effects of the war.
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After the war Mrs. Edmonds published an account of her experiences, The Boston publisher, DeWolfe, Fiske, & Co, published this book in 1864. The next year the book was read and published by a new publisher. A Hartford, CT publisher, published this with a new title.This book was called "Nurse and Spy in the Union Army".
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In 1867, she married L. H. Seelye,
