Complex sentence: While on her job she met enlisted men who encouraged her to join the Union Army and she did so on August 30th, 1862, using the name Lyons Wakeman, and claiming to be 21 years old.
Split into simpler sentences: While on her job she met enlisted men that encouraged her to join the Union army; so she did, on August 30th, 1862. She used the name Lyons Wakeman, and claimed to be 21 years old.