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The African American in the Civil War. Boston, Little, Brown, 1953. Rose, P. K., The Civil War: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence.Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War.] [permanent dead link ] Washington, D.C., Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence ...
After the war, however, she began a tour celebrating her experiences as a Union spy, working at one point with P. T. Barnum. In 1865, a friend, Ferdinand Sarmiento, wrote an exaggerated biography titled The Life of Pauline Cushman: The celebrated Union Spy and Scout, detailing her early history, her entry into the secret service, notes, and ...
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.
Toggle American Civil War era spies subsection. 2.1 Union spies. 2.2 Confederate spies. 3 American World War One era spies. 4 American World War Two era spies.
The Civil War podcast Uncivil had a 2018 episode about Mary Bowser. [22] This episode has been criticized for presenting much of the disputed information about Richards – including the name "Mary Bowser" – as fact. [8] The opera Intelligence by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer is based on Mary Bowser's life.
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 ...
This category is for articles relating to spies during the American Civil War. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
The value of the information that could be obtained, both passively and actively, by black Americans behind Confederate lines was clearly understood by most Union generals from early in the war. A stream of articles and stories in the Northern press during the war highlighted the important role of southern African Americans. Gen.