Among the heroes of the U.S. Civil War – from Generals Ulysses S. Grant, to Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Frederick Douglass – there’s another hero’s name you may not recognize. Who Was Sarah Edomonds? Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian woman who moved to the U.S. and settled in Flint, Michigan, just before the Civil War of the 1800's, served in the Union Army during the war as a member of the 2nd Michigan infantry volunteers. But she didn’t fight on the front lines as a woman. “Women weren’