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Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy / Elizabeth R. Varon.

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"Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon provi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Van Lew, Elizabeth L., > 1818-1900.
Spies > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Secret service.
Secret service.
Spies.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • "An awful responsibility": the making of a dissenter, 1818-1860
  • "My country! Oh my country!": Virginia leaves the Union
  • "Our flag was gone": The war's first year
  • "The bright rush of life": The making of the Richmond underground
  • Bet and the "beast": Butler finds his spy
  • "This precious dust": The clandestine reburial of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren
  • "The smoke of battle": Grant moves on Richmond
  • "A flaming altar": The fall of Richmond and its aftermath
  • "A fiery ordeal": The trials of a female politician
  • The myth of "Crazy Bet"
  • Epilogue: Van Lew's ghost.

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