Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison
Author: Belle Boyd
Publisher:
Published: 1865
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13:
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Belle Boyd
Author: Ruth Scarborough
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780865545557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt age 17 Belle Boyd shot and killed a Union soldier; at age 19 she was in a Union prison, a Confederate spy who got caught. A spunky West Virginia girl full of charm and with a zest for adventure, Belle worked among the highest-ranking officers and lowliest foot soldiers of the Civil War with an indomitable spirit that defied Union authority.As a spy Belle Boyd was amateurish, yet she managed to confuse Union officers and convey useful information to Southern military leaders. Southern newspapers dubbed her Joan of Arc of the South, Siren of the Shenandoah, and Cleopatra of the Secession, while Northern reporters referred to her as camp follower, the most overrated spy, and insincere courtesan. French newspapers, meanwhile, reported the exploits of La Belle Rebelle.Like many historical figures, Belle Boyd may appear in retrospect larger than life, but in this delightful biography her life is portrayed within the limits of its actual dimensions.
Belle Boyd, Confederate Spy
Author: Louis Adrien Sigaud
Publisher:
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the historical account of the Virginian rebel agent who carried messages to Confederates about movements of the Union Army. Maria Isabella "Belle" Boyd was born in May 1844 in West Virginia to a wealthy family. During the Civil War, her father was a soldier in the Stonewall Brigade, and at least three other members of her family were convicted of being Confederate spies. In 1861, when Federal troops occupied Martinsburg, Belle shot and killed a drunken Union soldier who was harrassing her and her mother. Soon after, at age 17, she became a "Rebel Spy."
A Rebellious Woman
Author: Claire J. Griffin
Publisher: Brandylane Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781951565473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Rebellious Woman is based on the life story of Belle Boyd (1844-1900), whose coming of age coincided with the opening shots of the Civil War. Debutante, teenaged spy, seductress, actress, divorcee, cross-dresser, and self-promoter, she carried a pistol and wasn't afraid to use it. In a century when a woman was meant to be nothing more than a well-behaved wife and mother, Belle Boyd stands out as a scandalous woman of history defying all the rules.
Petticoat Spies
Author: Peggy Caravantes
Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the lives and wartime exploits of six women who were spies during the Civil War. Includes Sarah Emma Edmonds, Belle Boyd, Pauline Cushman, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Elizabeth Van Lew, and Belle Edmondson.
Spies of the Confederacy
Author: John Bakeless
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2011-11-02
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0486298655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating and well-documented account of the true-life exploits of famous and obscure Southern spies who served the Southern cause. Essential reading for Civil War buffs, American History students and spy story aficionados..
Early American Cinema in Transition
Author: Charlie Keil
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2001-12-10
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0299173631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period 1907–1913 marks a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an increasingly popular entertainment, fledgling studios responded with longer running times and more complex storytelling. A growing trade press and changing production procedures also influenced filmmaking. In Early American Cinema in Transition, Charlie Keil looks at a broad cross-section of fiction films to examine the formal changes in cinema of this period and the ways that filmmakers developed narrative techniques to suit the fifteen-minute, one-reel format. Keil outlines the kinds of narratives that proved most suitable for a single reel’s duration, the particular demands that time and space exerted on this early form of film narration, and the ways filmmakers employed the unique features of a primarily visual medium to craft stories that would appeal to an audience numbering in the millions. He underscores his analysis with a detailed look at six films: The Boy Detective; The Forgotten Watch; Rose O’Salem-Town; Cupid’s Monkey Wrench; Belle Boyd, A Confederate Spy; and Suspense.
Belle Boyd
Author: C. W. Whitehair
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-07-25
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781973942177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBelle Boyd: The Rebel Spy is the first serious non-fiction account of her life in 34 years. Belle Boyd was from Martinsburg, Virginia (West Virginia) and considered the most notorious and deceptive female spy to operate in the lower Shenandoah Valley during America's Civil War. Boyd fought the war in an unconventional way by using the weapons of a woman's beauty and a woman's wiles. During the war, Belle Boyd was imprisoned three times, banished to the South, and eventually banished from the United States, only to become an author and actress in England. CW Whitehair has used various sources, unpublished letters, diaries, and period newspaper articles to chronicle the life of the most courageous female spy serving the Southern cause during the war.
Information Beyond Borders
Author: W. Boyd Rayward
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1317116801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe period in Europe known as the Belle Epoque was a time of vibrant and unsettling modernization in social and political organization, in artistic and literary life, and in the conduct and discoveries of the sciences. These trends, and the emphasis on internationalization that characterized them, necessitated the development of new structures and processes for discovering, disseminating, manipulating and managing access to information. This book analyses the dynamics of the emerging networks of individuals, organizations, technologies and publications by which means information was exchanged across and through all kinds of borders and boundaries in this period. It extends the frame within which historical discourse about information can take place by bringing together scholars not only from different disciplines but also from different national and linguistic backgrounds. As a result the volume offers new and surprising ways of looking at the historical period of the Belle Epoque. It will be of interest to scholars and students of information history and the emergence of the information society as well as to social and cultural historians concerned with the late 19th and early 20th century.
Mothers of Invention
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780807855737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.
