The Missing Chapter Podcast
The Tombs of the Unknown Crossdressers featuring Blake Smith

Sarah Emma Edmonds may be one of the greatest masters of disguise in military history, as she was able to switch from being a betrothed 17-year old girl in New Brunswick, to a 21-year old male volunteer named Frank Thompson, to a male slave and then to a female Irish peddler woman, and then back to a woman and survived to tell the tale.
Sit back and listen to the latest episode “The Tombs of the Unknown Crossdressers" - a tale of women who served heroically and died in the American Civil War only to be forgotten thus becoming yet another Missing Chapter.
- Broadcast on:
- 06 Mar 2021
Sarah Emma Edmonds may be one of the greatest masters of disguise in military history, as she was able to switch from being a betrothed 17-year old girl in New Brunswick, to a 21-year old male volunteer named Frank Thompson, to a male slave and then to a female Irish peddler woman, and then back to a woman and survived to tell the tale.
Sit back and listen to the latest episode “The Tombs of the Unknown Crossdressers" - a tale of women who served heroically and died in the American Civil War only to be forgotten thus becoming yet another Missing Chapter.