Liar temptress6/20/2023 Belle Boyd, a 17-year-old farmer’s daughter from Martinsburg, Virginia, which had voted three to one against secession, declared her loyalty to the Southern cause by shooting a Yankee soldier who dared to touch her mother, and thereby took advantage of the confusion and movement of troops to slip through the lines and pass secrets she was in and out of jail during the course of the war. Having previously written on Gypsy Rose Lee ( American Rose) and the Everleigh brothel in turn-of-the-century Chicago ( Sin in the Second City), Abbott finds some sympathetic, fiery characters in these four women who managed to aid their causes, either North or South, in their own particular ways. Four Civil War subversives-who happened to be women-garner a lively treatment.
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