Liar Temptress Soldier Spy By Karen Abbott Essay

Historical narrative nonfiction writer, Karen Abbott presented her lecture entitled “Civil War Female Spies” on March 22, 2016. She is a New York Times bestselling author of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy, which was named one of the best books of 2014 by Library Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Amazon, and was optioned by Sony for a miniseries. She has written for the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian magazine, Salon and other publications, making her a very

Tayler Meneguin Mr. Dittmar American History 2nd Quarter Book Report December 18, 2014 Liar, Temptress, Soldier by Karen Abbott was a great book explaining the role of four women had during the civil war. In books, we readers do not alway read about the women and their phenomenal actions and duties during the war. In many peoples minds they just think, the women do not play a role, but in all reality the North would have never won if the women would not have stepped up and took over the farm, industries

Belle Boyd “Confederate Spy" Maria Isabella “Belle” Boyd was born May 9, 1844 in Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) to an affluent family with deep Southern roots. Boyd was a determined, sharp, high-spirited person. Boyd was the oldest of eight children and the daughter of a shopkeeper, Benjamin Boyd, who enlisted in the Second Virginia Infantry, as a part of the Stonewall Brigade, and Mary Rebecca Glenn Boyd who both came from socially prominent families and also owned several slaves. Although