Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy /
"Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon provi...
| Основен автор: | Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Southern lady, Yankee spy. |
Съдържание:
- "An awful responsibility": the making of a dissenter, 1818-1860
- "My country! Oh my country!": Virginia leaves the Union
- "Our flag was gone": The war's first year
- "The bright rush of life": The making of the Richmond underground
- Bet and the "beast": Butler finds his spy
- "This precious dust": The clandestine reburial of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren
- "The smoke of battle": Grant moves on Richmond
- "A flaming altar": The fall of Richmond and its aftermath
- "A fiery ordeal": The trials of a female politician
- The myth of "Crazy Bet"
- Epilogue: Van Lew's ghost.