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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.
Mary Louveste was an African-American Union spy in Norfolk, Virginia, during the United States Civil War.She delivered details of plans for the conversion of the wrecked USS Merrimack to an ironclad that would be named the CSS Virginia and which represented a great advance in Confederate naval capabilities.
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 ...
“The Gray House,” the Kevin Costner-produced limited series about a female spy ring during the Civil War, will open Monaco’s 63rd annual Monte-Carlo Television Festival in June. The six ...
Izora (Zora) Fair was a native of South Carolina.During the American Civil War, she was a refugee in Oxford, Georgia.In November 1864, she nearly exposed General Sherman's planned "March to the Sea" to the Confederacy.
Female detective, in the Pinkerton Detective Agency's Female Detective Bureau and Union spy in the American Civil War Hattie Lawton , also known as Hattie H. Lawton , [ 1 ] Hattie Lewis , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Hattie Lewis Lawton [ 4 ] was an American detective, who worked for Allan Pinkerton , of the Pinkerton Detective Agency .
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 of an extensive spy ring for the Union Army in the Confederate capital of Richmond during the American Civil War. Many false claims continue to be made about her life.
Cynthia Charlotte Moon (1828–1895) was born in Danville, Virginia, on August 10, 1828.She and her sister, Virginia Moon are best known for their role as Confederate spies during the American Civil War.