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Mary Richards, also known as Mary Jane Richards Garvin and possibly Mary Bowser (born 1846), was a Union spy during the Civil War. [1] She was possibly born enslaved from birth in Virginia , but there is no documentation of where she was born or who her parents were.
Belle Boyd (age 21), Confederate spy (circa 1865). Boyd's espionage career began by chance. According to her 1866 account, a band of Union army soldiers heard that she had Confederate flags in her room on July 4, 1861, and they came to investigate. They hung a Union flag outside her home. Then one of the men cursed at her mother, which enraged ...
The Confederate States privateer Savannah. First to leave Charleston Harbor, on 2 June 1861, was the privateer Savannah.Her second day at sea, she captured brig Joseph, and thereby became the first Charleston privateer to take a prize in the war.
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On August 6, Judge Arthur J. Tuttle sentenced Stephan to death by hanging. [16] He was the first man convicted and sentenced to death on a federal treason charge since the Civil War. His sentence was later commuted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to life in prison. [17]
Confederate troops shot two additional suspects trying to escape. Confederate troops captured and arrested some 150–200 men in and near Cooke County at a time when numerous North Texas citizens opposed the new law on conscription. Many suspects were tried by a "Citizens' Court" organized by a Confederate military officer.
Letourneau was arrested shortly after, on March 4, 1997, on charges of second-degree child rape. At this point, she was seven months pregnant with Fualaau’s child, and was allowed to remain free ...
Confederate General Robert Lee said "The chief source of information to the enemy is through our negroes." [31] In a letter to Confederate high command, Confederate general Patrick Cleburne complained "All along the lines slavery is comparatively valueless to us for labor, but of great and increasing worth to the enemy for information. It is an ...