ISBN:

• 9780062092908
• 9780062092892

Edition: First edition.

Description: xiii, 513 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Splendid and Silent Suns (A Note)
• [1] 1861
• The Fastest Girl in Virginia (or anywhere else for that matter)
• Our Woman
• A Shaft In Her Quiver
• As If They Were Chased By Demons
• Never As Pretty As Her Portrait Shows
• Little Rebel Heart On Fire
• Admirable Self-Denial
• The Birds of the Air
• The Secret Room
• Stakeout
• Hard to Name
• Crinoline and Quinine
• Dark and Gloomy Perils
• Unmasked
• The Defenseless Sex
• [2] 1862
• Not Your Ideal of a Beautiful Soldier
• She Will Fool You Out of Your Eyes
• Rebel Vixens of the Slave States
• Wise As Serpents and Harmless As Doves
• A Woman Usually Tells All She Knows
• A Slave Called "Ned"
• Perfectly Insane On the Subject of Men
• The Other Side of the River
• My Love to All the Dear Boys
• One Grain of Manhood
• The Madam Looks Much Changed
• The Secesh Cleopatra
• The Bright Rush of Life, The Hurry of Death
• She Breathes, She Burns
• The Still, Small Voice
• Richmond Underground
• Playing Dead
• [3] 1863
• When You Think He May Be Killed Tomorrow
• Bread Or Blood
• A Wean That's Born To Be Hung
• Forgive You All the Same
• No One Ignorant of the Danger
• La Belle Rebelle
• Women Make War Upon Each Other
• Please Give Us Some of Your Blood
• [4] 1864
• That Unhappy Country
• Despicable Remedies
• The Sanctuary of a Modest Girl
• You Are Very Poor Company
• Be Prudent And Never Come Again
• Goodbye, Mrs. Greenhow
• This Verdict of Lunacy
• The Delicacy of the Situation
• Not At All Changed By Death
• The Sweet Little Man
• Like Most of Her Sex
• [5] 1865
• The Way A Child Loves Its Mother
• As This Mighty Work Was Done
• Epilogue.

Control Number: 1870039

Subjects:

• Bowser, Mary Elizabeth, approximately 1840-
• Boyd, Belle, 1844-1900.
• Greenhow, Rose O'Neal, 1814-1864.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Female.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Secret service.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
• Van Lew, Elizabeth L., 1818-1900.
• Women spies -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
• Women spies -- United States -- Biography.

Genre: Biographies.