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Sarah Emma Edmonds (born Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmondson, married name Seelye, alias Franklin Flint Thompson; December 1841 – September 5, 1898) was a British North America-born woman who claimed to have served as a man with the Union Army as a nurse and spy during the American Civil War.
Franklin Thompson, a decorated Vietnam War veteran with a debilitating narcotics addiction, was convicted in 1997 of the murder three and a half years earlier of Jacqueline Okai, a 41-year-old prostitute in Joliet, Illinois.
After an eight year battle and an Act of Congress, “Franklin Thompson” was cleared of desertion charges and awarded a pension in 1884. In 1897, Edmonds was admitted into the Grand Army of the Republic, the only woman member.
Eventually, she began dressing as a man, selling Bibles, and calling herself Franklin Thompson. She moved to Flint, Michigan as part of her job, and there she decided to join Company F of the Second Michigan Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, still as Franklin Thompson.
Dec 12, 2023 · Delaino Franklin Thompson has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, followed by 5 years of sex offender probation, for crimes against a child. He is also now a registered sexual predator. He was adjudicated guilty of two counts of Familial or Custodial Sexual Battery and two counts of Lewd or Lascivious Molestation.
Oct 9, 2018 · A Female Soldier in the Civil War: Emma E. Edmonds. by crrlstaff October 9, 2018. By Christie Hoerneman. Sarah Edmonds dressed as her alter ego, Frank Thompson / Public Domain. Historians believe at least 400 women served in the Civil War as soldiers, but documented cases are very few.
Dec 19, 2012 · Just a month later, on May 25, 1861, Edmonds signed up as a male field nurse in the Second Volunteers of the United States Army under her alias Franklin Flint Thompson. Edmonds continued her hospital work for many months until March of 1862, when she was reassigned as a mail carrier for her regiment.
