All the Daring of the Soldier
Subtitle: Women of the Civil War Armies
By: Elizabeth D. Leonard.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: United States. Army -- Women; Confederate States of America. Army -- Women; Women soldiers -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women spies -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women
Description: These are the stories of the women who worked as spies, as daughters of the regiments, or, disguised, as male soldiers to play their heroic part in the Civil War.

Here are the stories of Belle Boyd, a proud Confederate loyalist and key player in Stonewall Jackson's struggle to hold the Shenandoah Valley, army woman Annie Etheridge, whose four long years of courageous work on the field earned her a Kearney Cross for bravery, Sarah Emma Edmonds, who enlisted as "Franklin Thompson," remained with her regiment as a much respected soldier for two years, and fought at Fredricksburg and elsewhere; and many other courageous women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-359) and index.