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.