Rebecca Wright: Civil War Spy August 1864, General Grant sent General Phil Sheridan’s cavalry corps to the Shenandoah Valley. It’d been a spring and summer of stand-offs, slow advances, and
The Hoop Skirt Spy Emeline Pigott was twenty-five when the Civil War broke out. She lived with her family along Calico Creek near the North Carolina coast. The nearby town,
Winning Miss Nellie Miss Ellen (Nelly) Marcy was considered to be the catch of the East Coast in the mid and late 1850’s. Her father was a renowned army captain
Civil War Spymaster Extraordinaire I’m always intrigued by spy stories, especially tales of intrigue from the Civil War. Much has been written about Pinkerton’s legions, Belle Boyd, Rose O’Neil Greenhow,
Courtship in the Midst of War What were courtship and the decision to marry like for a young Southern woman in the midst of the Civil War? Take a peek
Encouraging Women and Shaping Culture with her Pen Born decades before the Civil War, Sarah Hale helped shape femininity for more than half of the 19th century. She didn’t
No Photography: What Was a War Correspondent to Do? Photography was in its rudimentary beginnings at the start of the Civil War, but the technology that would enable newspapers to
Clara Judd: Unstoppable Civil War Spy In 1862 and 1863, the Federal Army had its hands full. In Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and elsewhere, Rebel women were wreaking havoc inside the
Fanny Lawrence Rickets lived by these words from Ruth 1:16. Neither enemy lines, blood and gore, or prison walls could stop her from being by her husband’s side when he
Eighteen-year-old Thomas Jackson wanted to get out of the hills of western Virginia and make something of himself. He’d had little time for book learning, and he had little money,
