Women spies of the Civil War
Union V.S Confederacy
Great women spies
One of the Greatest women spies was Rose O'Neal Greenhow. How Greenhow got information was entertaining Union officers in her parlor. While entertaining then she would learn about military secrets. Knowing these secrets she would send coded messages to General Pierre G.T. Beauregard. She helped the General win battles for example, Battle of Bull Run in 1861. Another great spy was La Belle Rebelle she got caught six times for spying so she was put into prison. She still got messages to her friends by putting messages in a rubber ball and throwing it across the street where her friends would retrieve it.
There were many great spies and two were Elizabeth Van Lew and Mary Elizabeth Bowser. Bower was Van Lew's servant Van Lew got Bower a job to work in confederate capital. Van Lew and Bowser were both on the Union's side. Bowser spied in the capital by acting as if she was crazy and wasn't smart at all. So the people in the capital assumed that it was okay talking about plans around her sense she seemed like she wasn't smart and couldn't understand. When she heard valuable information she would tell Van Lew what she heard.
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Mary Elizabeth Bowers
Elizabeth Van Lew
Work Sited
Websites/Books
-The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Rose O'Neal Greenhow (American Confederate Spy)." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 25 May 2014.
-Women of the Confederacy by Barbara A. Somervill
-The Great Women of the Civil War
-Women Civil War Spies Of The Confederacy
-Marck, John T. "Elizabeth Van Lew & Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Union Spies." Elizabeth Van Lew & Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Union Spies. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 May 2014