My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington
Author: Rose O'Neal Greenhow
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Published: 1863
Total Pages: 374
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Author: Rose O'Neal Greenhow
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Published: 1863
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emily Lapisardi
Publisher:
Published: 2021-05
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780578866055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than one hundred and fifty years after her dramatic death by drowning, Civil War spy and diplomatRose Greenhow remains as polarizing and controversial as she was in life. This scholarly edition of her1863 memoirs enhances her work for the first time with copious footnotes, a complete index, and anintroduction placing it within the context of her years in the nation's capital, her espionage, and herdiplomatic mission to Europe.
Author: Ishbel Ross
Publisher: Mockingbird Bks.
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780891760269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann Blackman
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2005-06-07
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 158836481X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover, Rose Greenhow risked everything for the cause she valued more than life itself. In this superb portrait, biographer Ann Blackman tells the surprising true story of a unique woman in history. “I am a Southern woman, born with revolutionary blood in my veins,” Rose once declared–and that fiery spirit would plunge her into the center of power and the thick of adventure. Born into a slave-holding family, Rose moved to Washington, D.C., as a young woman and soon established herself as one of the capital’s most charming and influential socialites, an intimate of John C. Calhoun, James Buchanan, and Dolley Madison. She married well, bore eight children and buried five, and, at the height of the Gold Rush, accompanied her husband Robert Greenhow to San Francisco. Widowed after Robert died in a tragic accident, Rose became notorious in Washington for her daring–and numerous–love affairs. But with the outbreak of the Civil War, everything changed. Overnight, Rose Greenhow, fashionable hostess, become Rose Greenhow, intrepid spy. As Blackman reveals, deadly accurate intelligence that Rose supplied to General Pierre G. T. Beauregard written in a fascinating code (the code duplicated in the background on the jacket of this book). Her message to Beauregard turned the tide in the first Battle of Bull Run, and was a brilliant piece of spycraft that eventually led to her arrest by Allan Pinkerton and imprisonment with her young daughter. Indomitable, Rose regained her freedom and, as the war reached a crisis, journeyed to Europe to plead the Confederate cause at the royal courts of England and France. Drawing on newly discovered diaries and a rich trove of contemporary accounts, Blackman has fashioned a thrilling, intimate narrative that reads like a novel. Wild Rose is an unforgettable rendering of an astonishing woman, a book that will stand with the finest Civil War biographies.
Author: H. Donald Winkler
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1402242867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClandestine missions. Clever, devious, daring. Passionately committed to a cause. During America's most divisive war, both the Union and Confederacy took advantage of brave and courageous women willing to adventurously support their causes. These female spies of the Civil War participated in the world's second-oldest profession-spying-a profession perilous in the extreme. The tales of female spies are filled with suspense, bravery, treachery, and trickery. They took enormous risks and achieved remarkable results-often in ways men could not do. As stated on the grave marker of Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew: "She risked everything that is dear to man-friends, fortune, comfort, health, life itself." Told with personality and pizzazz, author H. Donald Winkler uses primary Civil War sources such as memoirs, journals, letters, and newspaper articles, plus the latest in scholarly research, to make these incredible stories come alive.
Author: Belle Boyd
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Published: 1865
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jennifer Chiaverini
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2014-03-25
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0142180882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison.
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-04-29
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 3382319578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author: Isaiah Campbell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1481426311
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Author: Cokie Roberts
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2015-04-14
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0062199285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this momentous period of American history. With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, D.C. found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States. After the declaration of secession, many fascinating Southern women left the city, leaving their friends—such as Adele Cutts Douglas and Elizabeth Blair Lee—to grapple with questions of safety and sanitation as the capital was transformed into an immense Union army camp and later a hospital. With their husbands, brothers, and fathers marching off to war, either on the battlefield or in the halls of Congress, the women of Washington joined the cause as well. And more women went to the Capital City to enlist as nurses, supply organizers, relief workers, and journalists. Many risked their lives making munitions in a highly flammable arsenal, toiled at the Treasury Department printing greenbacks to finance the war, and plied their needlework skills at The Navy Yard—once the sole province of men—to sew canvas gunpowder bags for the troops. Cokie Roberts chronicles these women's increasing independence, their political empowerment, their indispensable role in keeping the Union unified through the war, and in helping heal it once the fighting was done. She concludes that the war not only changed Washington, it also forever changed the place of women. Sifting through newspaper articles, government records, and private letters and diaries—many never before published—Roberts brings the war-torn capital into focus through the lives of its formidable women.