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Clandestine 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.
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By Gary Webster "eldebo11" - September 21, 2010This book establishes beyond a shadow of doubt that female spies made a positive difference for their respective sides in the Civil War. Writing in a highly readable, journalistic style, the author documents such actions as saving lives of generals, stealing and rushing secrets to commanders that led to important victories, and providing accurate information about enemy fortifications, plans, troop size, and movements, while often riding alone through storms and for several hours at night to convey their intelligence.
While the author does not use end notes, sources are clearly indicated in footnotes and in the text.
In several chapters, lengthy quotes are used from the biographies and journals of these women, and in all cases these quotes provide firsthand, detailed information about the dangers they confronted in carrying out their missions.
Spies are described in detail, from their appearance to their motivations--something missing in other books about spies, But... read more
Women spies and covert agents during the Civil War
By E. Jaksetic - September 20, 2010This book focuses on the contributions of women as spies and covert agents during the Civil War. Sixteen of the book's chapters deal with individual women spies, two of the chapters deal with pairs of women spies (a pair of sisters, and a pair of cousins), and one chapter deals briefly with more than twenty other women spies. A recurring theme in the book is the courage and ingenuity of women seeking to contribute to the Union or the Confederacy as spies or covert agents in the face of societal beliefs and conventions about women that made it difficult for them to be taken seriously. Another recurring theme in the book is the failure of many Union and Confederate men to recognize the security risk that resolute women could pose to military operations during the Civil War.
The book is easy to read and does not require the reader to have any prior knowledge about the Civil War. But, prior knowledge about the Civil War would help the reader to better understand the context... read more
Women Can Not Only Be Deceptive, But Heroic Too
By L. C. Henderson - October 31, 2010Winkler's earlier 2008 book Goats and Scapegoats focused on the mistakes made during the Civil War by those who should have known better--the generals involved at the forefront of the conflict. In Stealing Secrets, Winkler goes behind the battle lines, and, in some cases, into the boudoir, in which men once more showed their vulnerability by trading their state secrets for the blissful, but tenuous, embrace of those who would betray their ill-placed trust. However, Winkler is keen to point out that he regards these tales of valor as just that. Underplaying the salacious and what many would consider to be the scandalous nature of the liaisons involved, he holds, rather, that the encounters that he describes were, in fact, a success story of the women involved, showing how they were able to impact on the course of the Civil War through their heroic actions. Winkler includes accounts of women who also took an active role on the battle front as such, including Harriet Tubman and Loreta... read more
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