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200 10$aSouthern lady, Yankee spy$b[electronic resource] $ethe true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy /$fElizabeth R. Varon
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2003
215   $a1 online resource (332 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Map of Central Virginia; Map of Richmond; PROLOGUE; 1 "An Awful Responsibility" The Making of a Dissenter, 1818-1860; 2 "My Country! Oh My Country!" Virginia Leaves the Union; 3 "Our Flag Was Gone" The War's First Year; 4 "The Bright Rush of Life" The Making of the Richmond Underground; 5 Elizabeth and "The Beast" Butler Finds His Spy; 6 "This Precious Dust" The Clandestine Reburial of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren; 7 "The Smoke of Battle" Grant Moves on Richmond; 8 "A Flaming Altar" The Fall of Richmond and Its Aftermath
327   $a9 "A Fiery Ordeal" The Trials of a Female Politician10 The Myth of "Crazy Bet"; EPILOGUE: Van Lew's Ghost; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; INDEX
330   $aNorthern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, historian Elizabeth Varon provides a gripping, richly researched account of the woman who led what one historian called ""the most productive espionage operation of the Civil War."" Under the nose of the Confederate government, Van Lew ran a spy ring that gathered intelligence, hampered the Southern war effort, and helped scores of Uni
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