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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 ...
Sarah Ann Ewing Sims Carter Gaut (July 12, 1826 – August 21, 1912), usually known as Sarah Ewing Carter, was an American socialite, secessionist, and Confederate spy. She is purported to have hung the first Confederate flag in Franklin, Tennessee and became famous during the American Civil War for assisting her cousin, Adelicia Acklen, in smuggling cotton out of the country to sell in Europe.
The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.
Before the American Civil War, Moon married Judge James Clark. Her younger sister lived with them briefly after being expelled from her school for her pro-Confederacy views. The Clarks' home was a stopping point for Confederate couriers, and Moon began her espionage career when a letter needed to be delivered but no courier was available. [2]
Mary Jane Green was a Confederate spy and bushwhacker. Arrested multiple times for acts like smuggling intelligence and sabotaging telegraph wires, she was infamously rebellious, once attacking a guard who had untied her with a brick. Green fervently supporting the Confederacy.
Laura Ratcliffe (March 28, 1836, in Fairfax, Virginia – August 3, 1923, in Herndon, Virginia [1]) was a Confederate States of America spy. Laura's home in Herndon [2] was sometimes used as a headquarters by the Confederate raider John Mosby. Mosby gave Laura thousands of Federal Greenbacks to hide in her home.
The first shows the Confederate battle flag and the second portrays Clinton and his then Vice President Al Gore in the gray uniforms of the Confederacy. They were up for bidding on eBay and listed ...
During the American Civil War, Olivia Floyd became a spy and blockade runner for the Confederacy. She made numerous runs behind the lines between Washington, D.C., and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, and was said to have outwitted a company of Union soldiers. [1]