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Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster. The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
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- Nombre de pages256
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-0-06-333366-6
- EAN9780063333666
- Date de parution03/06/2025
- Protection num.Adobe DRM
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurHarper
Résumé
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this gripping Civil War history, Fox Business's Gerri Willis charts the making of a spymaster genius. Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit-the most elegant mansion in Richmond. So why risk everything to become a Union spy? The answer was simple: freedom. Right in the heart of the Confederate capital, Elizabeth played the society lady while building a secret espionage network-the Richmond spy ring-of slaves, Unionists, and prisoners of war.
It would cost her almost everything. Flouting society's expectations for women in the Civil War, Elizabeth infiltrated prisons and defied public opinion. Her story is filled with vivid personalities, including: Assassin John Wilkes Booth Washington socialite and Southern spy Rose Greenhow Prison escape artist Thomas Rose Cavalry hero Ulrich Dahlgren Black spy Mary Bowser who infiltrated the Confederate White House From grave robbery to a bold voyage across enemy lines, Elizabeth's escapades only grew more daring.
But it paid off. By the war's end, she had agents in both the Confederate War Department and the Richmond White House, and her couriers provided General Ulysses S. Grant with crucial, daily intelligence for his final assault. In this meticulously researched biography, Gerri Willis uncovers the Southern abolitionist heroine that the Lost Cause buried-an unbelievable tale of one woman's courage, resistance, and liberation.
Heartfelt, thrilling, and inspiring, this work of women's history, Lincoln's Lady Spymaster, restores a forgotten hero to her rightful place as an American icon.
It would cost her almost everything. Flouting society's expectations for women in the Civil War, Elizabeth infiltrated prisons and defied public opinion. Her story is filled with vivid personalities, including: Assassin John Wilkes Booth Washington socialite and Southern spy Rose Greenhow Prison escape artist Thomas Rose Cavalry hero Ulrich Dahlgren Black spy Mary Bowser who infiltrated the Confederate White House From grave robbery to a bold voyage across enemy lines, Elizabeth's escapades only grew more daring.
But it paid off. By the war's end, she had agents in both the Confederate War Department and the Richmond White House, and her couriers provided General Ulysses S. Grant with crucial, daily intelligence for his final assault. In this meticulously researched biography, Gerri Willis uncovers the Southern abolitionist heroine that the Lost Cause buried-an unbelievable tale of one woman's courage, resistance, and liberation.
Heartfelt, thrilling, and inspiring, this work of women's history, Lincoln's Lady Spymaster, restores a forgotten hero to her rightful place as an American icon.
