Sarah Rosetta Wakeman papers, 1862-1864.

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Sarah Rosetta Wakeman papers, 1862-1864.

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Photocopies of Wakeman's letters to her family while serving with the 153rd New York Infamtry Regiment as Pvt. Lyons Wakeman. Most of the letters were written from Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va., with a few later ones from Louisiana.

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United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 153rd (1862-1865)

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Wakeman, Sarah Rosetta, 1843-1864

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Wakeman was born January 16, 1843, in Bainbridge, New York, to Harvey Anable Wakeman and Emily Hale Wakeman. She was the oldest of nine children in the farming family of Afton, New York. By the age of seventeen, she had received some formal education and was working as a domestic servant. Wakeman understood the tremendous financial pressure her family was under, and without possible suitors to take on her expenses, Wakeman left her home as a man in 1862 and went to work as a boatman for the Chen...

Wakeman family.

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