Seymour Reit, best known as the creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost, tells the fact-based story of Emma Edmonds, a Canadian-born woman who cropped her hair, enlisted in the Union Army in 1861, and spent the Civil War working as a Federal spy.
Disguised in turn as a peddler, a bookkeeper, and an enslaved man, Edmonds slipped behind Confederate lines again and again, gathering intelligence and narrowly escaping capture each time.
Written for young readers, this fictionalized biography has introduced generations of students to one of the Civil War’s most audacious real-life stories.
Published 2001
144 pages
$5.99