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Was Sarah Edmonds truthful?
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Sarah Edmonds, aka Sarah Edmonson, aka Frank Thompson, was a cross-dressing soldier in the Civil War and we know her story because she wrote about it in her book, linked in full here. In this lesson, students will examine excerpts from the book to determine what it was like to be a cross-dressing soldier and separate fact from hyperbole.