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

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Van Lew, Elizabeth L., > 1818-1900.
Van Lew, Elizabeth L., > 1818-1900
1861-1865
Spies > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY.
Secret service
Spies
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Spionnen.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Secret service.
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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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