Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (1842–1864)
Auteur de An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Sarah Rosetta Wakeman
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Wakeman, Lyons
- Date de naissance
- 1842-01-16
- Date de décès
- 1864-06-19
- Lieu de sépulture
- Chalmette National Cemetery, Chalmette, Louisiana
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Bainbridge, New York
- Lieu du décès
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Cause du décès
- chronic diarrhea
- Professions
- domestic servant
boatman
soldier - Organisations
- United States Army (153rd New York Infantry Regiment)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 131
- Popularité
- #154,467
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
Burgess herself was unmasked during a reenactment at Antietam and barred by the Park Service from further participation. She sued, and won. This book therefore also is about barriers to women’s full participation in public life, including military service; about the lengths some women will go to in order to get around those barriers; and about their lived experience of doing so. It is, therefore, not just about an uncommon soldier but also more generally about an uncommon woman living an uncommon life. And yet Wakeman was not much different than any other soldier: adventurous, proud of her soldiering abilities, fatalistic about the outcome. She could march and shoot and even fistfight just as well as the other soldiers in her company. Her reasons for enlisting were not dissimilar, either—to have clothes, food, and camaraderie, to make money to send home to her family.
She was never detected. We only know about her service because her family preserved her letters. Burgess has lovingly transcribed these, and her light-handed editing lets Wakeman speak for herself. Because Wakeman is the only woman soldier for whom we have such a contemporary record, Wakeman must needs also speak for the hundreds of others we will never know much, if anything, about. Like Wakeman’s life and service, this is a short book. You can read it in a day, but Wakeman’s spirit will stay with you much longer.… (plus d'informations)