Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy /
Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963-
Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy / Elizabeth R. Varon. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. - xi, 317 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
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.
Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004
0195142284 (acid-free paper) 9780195142280 (acid-free paper)
2003009266
Van Lew, Elizabeth L., 1818-1900.
Spies--United States--Biography.
United States--History--Secret service.--Civil War, 1861-1865
E 608.V34 / V37 2003
Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy / Elizabeth R. Varon. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. - xi, 317 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
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.
Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004
0195142284 (acid-free paper) 9780195142280 (acid-free paper)
2003009266
Van Lew, Elizabeth L., 1818-1900.
Spies--United States--Biography.
United States--History--Secret service.--Civil War, 1861-1865
E 608.V34 / V37 2003