Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil WarClandestine missions. Clever, devious, daring. Passionately committed to a cause. During America's most divisive war, both the Union and Confederacy took advantage of brave and courageous women willing to adventurously support their causes. These female spies of the Civil War participated in the world's second-oldest profession-spying-a profession perilous in the extreme. The tales of female spies are filled with suspense, bravery, treachery, and trickery. They took enormous risks and achieved remarkable results-often in ways men could not do. As stated on the grave marker of Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew: Told with personality and pizzazz, author H. Donald Winkler uses primary Civil War sources such as memoirs, journals, letters, and newspaper articles, plus the latest in scholarly research, to make these incredible stories come alive. |
Contents
Rose Greenhow | 1 |
Sarah Slater | 29 |
Olivia Floyd | 39 |
Elizabeth Van Lew | 51 |
Elizabeth Baker | 89 |
Ginnie and Lottie Moon | 95 |
Pauline Cushman | 111 |
Rebecca Wright | 135 |
Belle Boyd | 201 |
Emma Edmonds | 227 |
Clara Judd | 247 |
Sarah Lane Thompson | 253 |
Loreta Velazquez | 259 |
More Heroines | 287 |
Mary Surratt | 299 |
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