Rose O'Neal Greenhow

the Potomac had been defeated at Bull Run in the first major battle of the Civil War. Pinkerton’s most challenging opponents was Rose O’Neal Greenhow, the South’s most productive and effective spy. She concealed information that thwarted the attack by General George McDowell at Manassas, outside of Washington. Pinkerton realized Rose Greenhow, “the Southern Rose,” presented a great danger and had to be arrested. A Union army captain was arrested leaving her home, carrying a vital military

In the North attempts were made to organize nurses and in June 1861 Dorothea Dix was put in charge of recruiting nurses for military hospitals, first in Washington and later other areas. Dix, like the rest of society, had some very strong ideas about what a nurse should and shouldn’t be and in a document dated July 14, 1862 she specified those ideas. No candidate for service in the Women’s Department for nursing in the military hospitals of the United States, will be received below the age of thirty-five

When you think of the Civil War you think of bloody battles, muskets exploding, bayonets sinking into enemy soldiers, and people giving their lives for the sake of either the Union or Confederate States and what they believed in. But most people do not think of one very important factor in the Civil War. Espionage. Throughout this paper we will be exploring the secretive world of espionage in the Civil War from both of the opposing sides. The first battle of the Civil War occurred at Fort Sumter

Actions taken by Union spies had little impact on events during the Civil War. Shortly before the Civil War officially begun, a plan to assassinate the newly-elected President Lincoln was about to take place in Baltimore, Maryland. Luckily, due to information found out by Allan Pinkerton and spies from the Pinkerton Detective Agency, they were able to prevent the assassination by sneaking Lincoln out of Baltimore and to Washington D.C. (Floyd Jr., 9). Despite taking place before the war, it is considered

Though both the Union and Confederacy didn't have a proper intelligence network, they both were able to acquire critical information through spies, espionage transactions, and undercover agents. Because this was one of the first American wars that spying was used in, many modern American spy tactics and techniques were introduced. They also helped deliver crucial information to both the Union and Confederate and free a great amount of slaves. Spies in The Civil war also were of a large variety of

Liar Temptress Soldier Spy is a novel about four women who go undercover in the Civil War which is written by Karen Abbott. Karen Abbott is an American author who invests her time in composing nonfiction, novels based on American history. Throughout this novel she expresses the impact women had on the Civil war, she brings into view that women were more involved than what we originally assumed. This novel allows us to change our perspective, seeing women in a new light, knowing not only were women

Women's Roles During Times of War and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas With the prevalence of war goddesses in most traditions from China to Greece to Ireland, women have been separated from the front lines of war for centuries. The goddesses, the divine representations of women in the ideal, are torn between dual roles: that of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and just war, and that of Vesta, goddess of hearth and home. These two roles, warrior and mother, are not necessarily as very different

Beauregard received the missive in time and was able to strategically rearrange his troops. Rose is credited as a crucial component to the Confederate victory at the first Battle of Bull Run. Isabelle Buchanan Edmondson, nicknamed Belle, was an uncontrollable, wild young woman living with her family in Elm Ridge, Tennessee. Searching

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

Women 's Rights In the Civil War Time Period Before the war, women had very little rights. A married woman could not control property that was hers before marriage, keep control of her wages, acquire property while married, she could not transfer or sell property, she couldn’t even bring a lawsuit. A husband could do anything he wished to with a woman’s material. He could sell them, break them, and his wife couldn 't sell or give away the exact same things. It was immensely unfair to women.