A Yankee Spy in Richmond

David Ryan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

174 Seiten

2001
Stackpole Books (Verlag)
978-0-8117-2999-4 (ISBN)

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Elizabeth Van Lew was a spy during the Civil War. The diary Van Lew kept during those years provides an account of the life of a Civil War spy. Her sporadic notations reveal her fears, her triumphs, and the danger she faced in sending information through the lines to the Yankees, while aiding the escape attempts of Union prisoners in Richmond.

She walked the streets of Richmond dressed in farm woman’s clothing, singing and mumbling to herself. Soon her suspicious and condescending neighbors began referring to her as “Crazy Bet.” But she wasn’t mad; she had purpose in her doings. She wanted people to think she was insane so that they would be less likely to ask her questions and possibly discover her goal: to defeat the South and to end slavery. Elizabeth Van Lew, of Crazy Bet, was General Ulysses S. Grant’s spy in the capital city of the Confederacy.

David D. Ryan has written seven other books and numerous articles for Civil War publications. He was for 21 years a writer and photographer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He presently works as a freelance author from his Richmond home.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2001
Verlagsort	Mechanicsburg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8117-2999-0 / 0811729990
ISBN-13	978-0-8117-2999-4 / 9780811729994
Zustand	Neuware