Just found this on the internet. Does anyone have any more information about this woman? Has anyone read the book? Thanks, Linda

For some interesting reading:

                            An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah
                            Rosetta Wakeman, alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd
                            Regiment, New York State Volunteers (Pasadena, MD,
                            1994). It is now also available in paperback from Oxford
                            University Press.
                            This is the only complete collection of letters from a Civil War
                            woman soldier from the time of her enlistment until her death in
                            1863. Lauren Cook Burgess, ed.