Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott
Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
During the American Civil War, four extraordinary women—a Washington socialite who ran a Confederate spy ring, a Richmond abolitionist who built an underground intelligence network for the Union, a daring actress who posed as a Confederate sympathizer, and a young woman who disguised herself as a male soldier—used charm, deception, and courage to gather crucial information and manipulate battle plans, upending contemporary notions of femininity and risking imprisonment, exile, and death; their intertwined stories reveal the improvisational brutality of wartime espionage, the moral ambiguities of loyalty and fame, and how gendered expectations provided both cover and constraint for acts of resistance and survival.
- Published
- 2014
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Medium
- Pages
- 352 pages
- Original Language
- English
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