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Author:

Winkler, H. Donald, 1932-

Title:

Stealing secrets : how a few daring women deceived generals, impacted battles, and altered the course of the Civil War / H. Donald Winkler.

Publisher:

Cumberland House,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xv, 334 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

United States--Participation, Female.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Female.
United States--Women.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
United States--Secret service.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Secret service.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
Women spies--Biography.
Women spies--Confederate States of America--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-318) and index.

Contents:

Rebel queen of Washington spies: Rose Greenhow -- Vanished without a trace: Sarah Slater -- "Singing as sweetly as ever": Olivia Floyd -- Grant's most valuable Richmond spy: Elizabeth Van Lew -- The spy who saved ships: Elizabeth Baker -- Double trouble sister act: Ginnie and Lottie Moon -- The perils of Pauline: Pauline Cushman -- The heroine of Winchester: Rebecca Wright -- A glorious consummation: Harriet Tubman -- A teenage terrorist: Nancy Hart -- "No sacrifice too great": Antonia Ford and Laura Ratcliffe -- Mosby's Merry Christmas: Roberta Pollock -- A secesh Cleopatra: Belle Boyd -- The clever masquerader: Emma Edmonds -- Trapped in a sting operation: Clara Judd -- Sarah's deadly revenge: Sarah Lane Thompson -- Hired to find herself: Loreta Velazquez -- Beyond the call of duty: more heroines -- Did she die for their sins?: Mary Surratt.

ISBN:

1402242743 (pbk.)
9781402242748 (pbk.)

LCCN:

2010025638

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