Varon, Elizabeth R.,  1963- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195142284 (acid-free paper) 9780195142280 (acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003009266 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Van Lew, Elizabeth L., 1818-1900. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Spies--United States--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Secret service.--Civil War, 1861-1865
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E 608.V34  / V37 2003