Emma Sansom (1847-1900) played a heroic role in the Civil War, when as a teenager

Courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and History

Emma Sansom

Emma Sansom (1847-1900) played a heroic role in the Civil War, when as a teenager she led Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest across Black Creek in northern Alabama to capture Union colonel Abel D. Streight and his raiders in 1863.