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Stealing secrets, how a few daring women deceived generals, impacted battles, and altered the course of the Civil War, H. Donald Winkler

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Stealing secrets, how a few daring women deceived generals, impacted battles, and altered the course of the Civil War, H. Donald Winkler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-318) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Stealing secrets

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

515413226

Responsibility statement

H. Donald Winkler

Sub title

how a few daring women deceived generals, impacted battles, and altered the course of the Civil War

Table Of Contents

Rebel queen of Washington spies : Rose Greenhow -- Vanished without a trace : Sarah Slater -- "Singing as sweetly as ever" : Olivia Floyd -- Grant's most valuable Richmond spy : Elizabeth Van Lew -- The spy who saved ships : Elizabeth Baker -- Double trouble sister act : Ginnie and Lottie Moon -- The perils of Pauline : Pauline Cushman -- The heroine of Winchester : Rebecca Wright -- A glorious consummation : Harriet Tubman -- A teenage terrorist : Nancy Hart -- "No sacrifice too great" : Antonia Ford and Laura Ratcliffe -- Mosby's Merry Christmas : Roberta Pollock -- A secesh Cleopatra : Belle Boyd -- The clever masquerader : Emma Edmonds -- Trapped in a sting operation : Clara Judd -- Sarah's deadly revenge : Sarah Lane Thompson -- Hired to find herself : Loreta Velazquez -- Beyond the call of duty : more heroines -- Did she die for their sins? : Mary Surratt

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