Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy / Elizabeth R. Varon.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: xi, 317 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195142284 (acid-free paper)
  • 9780195142280 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E 608.V34 V37 2003
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Contents:
"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.
Awards:
  • Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004
Summary: 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.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection E 608 .V34 V37 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98641855

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

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