Our Civil War Sesquicentennial Project collects its fourth Jeff nomination.

Comrades Mine: Emma Edmonds of the Union Army by Maureen Gallagher, our 2013 Civil War Project world premiere play, has been nominated for a Jeff Award in the Best New Work category.  The play is based on the true story of Emma Edmonds, who served with the Second Michigan Volunteer Infantry for the first two years of the Civil War disguised as a man.

Congratulations, Maureen.

The awards ceremony is June 2.  Details for those who wish to attend are here. 

Update:   As coincidence would have it, the New York Times Disunion blog entry for today is about Emma Edmonds.  It repeats as true some stuff she made up for her memoir, like the yarn about her tending to a dying soldier who is also a woman in disguise.  It also says the war broke out in 1860!  But it's worth reading anyway.