TY - BOOK AU - Varon,Elizabeth R. TI - Southern lady, Yankee spy: the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy SN - 0195142284 (acid-free paper) AV - E 608.V34 V37 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Van Lew, Elizabeth L., KW - Spies KW - United States KW - Biography KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Secret service N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip043/2003009266.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2003009266-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0724/2003009266-b.html ER -