![]() ![]() ![]() 13, Richmond Civil War Centennial Commission. It brought $1,500 in Confederate money only about $75 in US currency." A footnote to this statement references a "Confederate Inflation Chart", Official publication No. An ever increasing inflation was driving up the cost of everything and eventually they had to sell their cow. "Another problem for Elizabeth and her mother was finding money to pay for their spy efforts. The editor's introduction contains this interesting comment (p 17): Allan Pinkerton, President Abraham Lincoln, and Major General John A. RICHMOND UNION SPY NETWORK CRACKHere, James Adams shares an overview of spies and spying on both the Union and Confederate sides in the early part of the war. For crack Union double agent Timothy Webster, not even the personal intercession of Abraham Lincoln could prevent those consequences from taking place. I suppose even that is worth putting in print, but it's definitely a reference for specialists. Spying and espionage has been a part of war for centuries and the American Civil War (1861-65) was no exception. So much of Lew's papers were destroyed at war's end, in order to eliminate incriminating evidence, that what remains is literally small fragments of her wartime journals. Though her neighbors with Confederate sympathies clearly despised her, and shunned her, they did not kill her or even drive her out of the community. Terms such as the Underground Telegraph, Colonels Line, and. Trenton Hizer, Senior Manuscripts Acquisition & Digital Archivist. This map depicts the various routes between safe-houses, way stations, and spy networks. ![]() For more information, contact Archives Reference Services at 804.692.3888 or. A Black woman, they said, had worked in the Confederate White House. Map of Civil War Richmond- Map from A Yankee Spy in Richmond by David D. She ran a Union spy ring in Richmond out of her mansion, with dozens of agents. 52783, 52880), have been processed and are now available for research use in the Library. In 1911, fifty years after the Civil War, 'Harpers Monthly' magazine made a bold claim. Lincolns Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation, by Douglas Waller. The Southern culture's toleration for eccentricity seems the only plausible explanation for the survival of this character not only during the war, but until September of 1900. The Elizabeth Van Lew Papers, 18421911 (Acc. ![]()
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