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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.
The second agent, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, was part of a Union spy ring known as "the Richmond underground," directed by Elizabeth Van Lew, whose family was well respected and well connected socially in Richmond. While not hiding her Union loyalties, Van Lew affected behavior that made her appear harmless and eccentric to Confederate authorities.
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.
Mary Ross Banks; E. Florence Barker; Lucy Fenman Barron; Catherine Virginia Baxley; Mary Bell (American Civil War nurse) Mary Ann Bickerdyke; Elizabeth Blackwell; Emily Blackwell; Lillie Devereux Blake; Marie Boozer; Mary Bowser; Belle Boyd; Susan Brownlow Boynton; Sarah Broadhead; Kady Brownell; Sophronia Bucklin; Caroline Burghardt
Leveen published her first novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, in 2012. [3] The novel is based on the life of Mary Bowser , a Virginia slave who became a spy for the Union Army . It was named one of The Oregonian 's Top Ten Northwest Books of 2012, [ 4 ] and has been optioned for film.
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Her letters remain one of the few surviving primary accounts of female soldiers in the American Civil War. [27] [28] Laura J. Williams was a woman who disguised herself as a man and used the alias Lt. Henry Benford in order to raise and lead a company of Texas Confederates. She and the company participated in the Battle of Shiloh. [29] [30]