| Description |
xi, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Chronicles the life of Elizabeth Van Lew, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South by becoming a Union spy during the Civil War. |
| Awards |
Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004 |
| Subject |
Van Lew, Elizabeth L., 1818-1900.
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Spies -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Secret service.
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| ISBN |
0195142284 (acid-free paper) |
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9780195142280 (acid-free paper) |
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