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The Confederacy's Signal Corps was devoted primarily to communications and intercepts, but it also included a covert agency called the Confederate Secret Service Bureau, which ran espionage and counter-espionage operations in the North, including two networks in Washington.
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Pauline Cushman (born Harriet Wood; June 10, 1833 – December 2, 1893) was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. She is considered one of the most successful Civil War spies.
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 ...
Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1813 [1] – October 1, 1864) was a famous Confederate spy during the American Civil War.A socialite in Washington, D.C., during the period before the war, she moved in important political circles and cultivated friendships with presidents, generals, senators, and high-ranking military officers including John C. Calhoun and James Buchanan. [2]
American people convicted of spying for the Confederate States of America (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "American Civil War spies" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
Pages in category "American people convicted of spying for the United States by the Confederate States of America" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Frank Stringfellow (c. 1840 – June 8, 1913) was a Confederate officer and spy who survived the American Civil War, and married the sweetheart for whom he repeatedly risked his life to court – Emma Green. [1] After the war Stringfellow married Green, and became an Episcopal minister.