Women Spies of the Civil War Hundreds of women served as spies during the Civil War. Here’s a look at six who risked their lives in daring and unexpected ways. May 8, 2011.

Mr. Markle talked about his book, [Spies and Spymasters in the Civil War], published by Hippocrene Books. He talked about the use of aerial photography, the telegraph, wire-tapping, and code ...

Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis are some of the more prominent names in American Civil War history. Yet, it wasn’t an all-boys club on the war front.… ...

When I travel north of the Mason-Dixon line, someone invariably asks me if we in the South are still fighting the Civil War. I tell them no, that isn’t true, but we do have a sense of ...

Historical nonfiction has never really been my genre of choice. I love fiction for its ability to keep my attention with a lively narrative arc and complex characters and for ...

Slaves, freedmen: Civil War's forgotten spies In the Confederate circles he navigated, John Scobell was considered just another Mississippi slave. In reality, Scobell was not a slave at all.

She was the highest-placed spy in the Civil War. In 1995, she was inducted into the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame. Among the other spies Jones highlighted during his two-hour ...