Roseetta Wakemand,American Battlefield Trust

ID: 872
This file appears in: The Battle of Bourbeux Bayou
Roseetta Wakemand,American Battlefield Trust

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One of the hundreds of women who disguised themselves as men to fight in the Civil War. Unlike most of the women, however, the letters that Wakeman wrote home were preserved by her family and later published.
This file appears in: The Battle of Bourbeux Bayou

By Gordon Eatley
It is the third year of the "War between the States" or "The war of the Yankee aggression," as those from the South called it. All eyes were on Antietam, Bull Run, Vicksburg, and Chancellorsville. Battles fought in Pennsylvania,…