Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the C...
Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the C...
Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy / Elizabeth R. Varon.
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New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
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N973.785/2
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Map of Central Virginia -- Map of Richmond -- 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....
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New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2003.
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"Northern 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 researched account of the woman who led what one...
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Southern lady, Yankee spy : the true story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union agent in the heart of the Confederacy / Elizabeth R. Varon.
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Includes bibliographical references (p.265-303) and index.
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N973.785/2
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74VvebJNGQjO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvebJNGQjO
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0195142284 (acid-free paper)
9780195142280 (acid-free paper)
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973.785092
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991017178549702626
