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Karen Abbott, the New York Times best-selling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle background" (USA Today), explains to the spellbinding true report of four women who risked everything to be spies through the Civil War. Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most interesting yet little-known aspects of the Civil Conflict: The testimonies of four courageous women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow - who were spies. After capturing a Union soldier in her front side hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both edges. Emma Edmonds cut off her head of hair and assumed the identity of a guy to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest fights of the Civil Conflict. The stunning widow, Rose O'Neale Greenhow, employed in affairs with powerful North politicians to gather cleverness for the Confederacy, and used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals. Elizabeth Truck Lew, a rich Richmond abolitionist, hid behind her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage band, right under the noses of suspicious rebel detectives. Using a wealth of major source material and interviews with the spies' descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the escapades of the four heroines throughout the tumultuous many years of the war. Which has a solid of real-life character types including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Basic Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy draws you into the battle as these daring women resided it.
