Sarah Edmonds Seelye
Second Michigan Infantry
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| Sarah Edmonds Seelye served two years in the Second Michigan Infantry as Franklin Thompson (left). In 1886, she received a military pension. |
Both the Union and Confederate armies forbade the enlistment of women. Women soldiers of the Civil War therefore assumed 
masculine names, disguised themselves as men, and hid the fact they were female. Because they passed as men, it is impossible to know with any certainty how many women soldiers served in the Civil War. Estimates place as many as 250 women in the ranks of the Confederate army.
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masculine names, disguised themselves as men, and hid the fact they were female. Because they passed as men, it is impossible to know with any certainty how many women soldiers served in the Civil War. Estimates place as many as 250 women in the ranks of the Confederate army.
