num_pages: 102
description: Emma Sansom was a farm girl of 15 when Union soldiers riding mules galloped past the Etowah County, Alabama, farm where she lived. The Union soldiers were on their way to the Georgia where they intended to cut a railroad supply line that ran between Atlanta and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Hot on their trail were Confederate troops, led by the famous Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Confederates were determined to stop the Union soldiers before they could reach the railroad. When the Union soldiers burned the bridge that spanned the creek next to Emma Sansom’s house, she jumped astride Forrest’s horse and showed him a place to ford the creek so that he could keep pace with the Union soldiers. It was an ordinary girl’s 15 minutes of fame, but it was a moment relived in Alabama history still today.
language: English
title: Emma Sansom: Confederate Heroine
titlecomplete: Emma Sansom: Confederate Heroine
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Seacoast Publishing, Incorporated