Southern lady, Yankee spy the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy /

Chronicles the life of Elizabeth Van Lew, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South by becoming a Union spy during the Civil War.

Main Author: Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Physical Description: xi, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |t "An awful responsibility": the making of a dissenter, 1818-1860 --  |t "My country! Oh my country!": Virginia leaves the Union --  |t "Our flag was gone": The war's first year --  |t "The bright rush of life": The making of the Richmond underground --  |t Bet and the "beast": Butler finds his spy --  |t "This precious dust": The clandestine reburial of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren --  |t "The smoke of battle": Grant moves on Richmond --  |t "A flaming altar": The fall of Richmond and its aftermath --  |t "A fiery ordeal": The trials of a female politician --  |t Myth of "Crazy Bet" --  |t Epilogue: Van Lew's ghost. 
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586 |a Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004. 
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