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She is considered one of the most successful Civil War spies. [13] She fraternized with Confederate officials and managed to conceal battle plans and drawings in her shoes, but was caught twice in 1864 [ 2 ] : 233 and brought before Confederate General Braxton Bragg , tried by a military court, and sentenced to death by hanging but was spared ...
Belle Boyd (age 21), Confederate spy (circa 1865). Boyd's espionage career began by chance. According to her 1866 account, a band of Union army soldiers heard that she had Confederate flags in her room on July 4, 1861, and they came to investigate.
Pauline Cushman (born Harriet Wood; June 10, 1833 – December 2, 1893) was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. She is considered one of the most successful Civil War spies.
This category is for notable women of the American Civil War. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
Elizabeth Van Lew (October 12, 1818 – September 25, 1900) was an American abolitionist, Southern Unionist, and philanthropist who recruited and acted as the primary handler an extensive spy ring for the Union Army in the Confederate capital of Richmond during the American Civil War.
Sarah Ann Ewing Sims Carter Gaut (July 12, 1826 – August 21, 1912), usually known as Sarah Ewing Carter, was an American socialite, secessionist, and Confederate spy. She is purported to have hung the first Confederate flag in Franklin, Tennessee and became famous during the American Civil War for assisting her cousin, Adelicia Acklen, in smuggling cotton out of the country to sell in Europe.
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
Lola Sánchez (1844–1895) was one of three sisters who became spies for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Sánchez became upset when their father was falsely accused of being a Confederate spy by the members of the Union Army and imprisoned. Officers of the Union Army then occupied the Sánchez residence in Palatka, Florida ...