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Confederate Spy Rose Greenhow Hid Gold on Cape Fear Beach
Cape Fear river shoreside find on Oct 1 1864 revealed the body of Rose Greenhow, famed Confederate spy, with a reticule full of English gold worth 2000. A soldier who discovered the body seized the gold but returned it later, and Greenhow’s death followed a blockade runner wreck near Fort Fisher. Greenhow, widow of Robert Greenhow, moved in Washington society and advised Jefferson Davis era circles. Her espionage involved coded messages part of Beauregard’s Bull Run victory plans and Pinkerton pursuit in the ensuing months.
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North Carolina
Wilmington
N. C
Mrs. Greenhow
Europe
Robert Greenhow
Virginia
State Department
16Th Street
Washington
Capital Society
White House
Buchanan
Thomas Jordan
U. S
Potomac
Chainbridge
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Fairfax Court House
M. L. Bonham
Beauregard