Sarah Emma Edmonds' enthusiasm for experience was started by a book she read in her childhood by Maturin Murray Ballou called Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain', recounting to the account of Fanny Campbell and her undertakings on a privateer transport during the American Revolution while dressed as a lady Fanny stayed dressed as a man so as to seek after different experiences, to which Edmonds credits her longing to dress in drag. During the Civil War, on May 25, 1861, she enrolled in Company F of the second Michigan Infantry, otherwise called the Flint Union Grays. On her subsequent attempt, she masked herself as a man named "Franklin Flint Thompson," the center name potentially after the city she chipped in, Flint, Michigan. She felt that it was her obligation to serve her nation and was genuinely energetic towards her new nation. She from the start filled in as a male field nurture, taking an interest in a few crusades under General McClellan, including the First and Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, the Peninsula Campaign, Vicksburg, Fredericksburg, and others. Be that as it may, a few history specialists guarantee that these reports place her in more than one area simultaneously.