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Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1813 [1] – October 1, 1864) was a famous Confederate spy during the American Civil War.A socialite in Washington, D.C., during the period before the war, she moved in important political circles and cultivated friendships with presidents, generals, senators, and high-ranking military officers including John C. Calhoun and James Buchanan. [2]
Lily Mackall (sometimes, Lillie Mackall) (c. 1839 – December 12, 1861) was a messenger for Rose Greenhow, a Confederate spy during the American Civil War.Arrested with Greenhow, they were held under house arrest, although Mackall was allowed to leave freely and used this to smuggle out some of the most sensitive documents in her shoes. [1]
Tragedy struck the family when Greenhow's husband died falling off an elevated sidewalk in California and succumbing to internal soon after little Rose's birth. After his death, Greenhow saw her oldest child Florence move west, and later, just before the Civil War, Gertrude died. Greenhow's sympathy for the Confederate cause grew after her ...
Candice Bergen’s husband Marshall Rose died on Saturday, Feb. 15.He was 88. Rose died from complications with Parkinson's disease, according to a Feb. 17 New York Times obituary.The real estate ...
The 911 call came in at about 4 p.m. on Sept. 18, 2014, to Gilchrist County dispatchers in Florida. On the tape, the 911 operator could hear a man admitting to killing his adult daughter and his ...
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Dr. Robert Greenhow, son of Robert Greenhow and later the husband of noted Confederate spy Rose Greenhow, survived the fire along with his father; his mother was killed in the blaze. [25] [26] Another survivor was former U.S. Congressman John G. Jackson, then serving in the Virginia General Assembly. [27]
A distraught model allegedly fatally shot her husband before turning the gun on herself in an apparent murder-suicide inside their luxury Florida high-rise that left his family “shattered ...