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Heroism of a Confederate Woman Spy
The article recounts Rose O Neale Greenhow a Washington society leader who aided the Confederacy by covertly sending military dispatches to General Beauregard. It covers her recruitment by Col Jordan her arrest in 1861 the daring dispatch transfers including the pink yarn tactic her exile and eventual death near the Wilmington blockade with her Confederate flag wrapped coffin.
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Buchanan
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Washington
Buckhanan
William H. Steward
New York
Dolly Madison
Stephen A. Douglas
Charleston
Rose
Col
Thomas Jordan
Manassas
Richmond
Rose Greenhow
Beauregard
Potomac
Fairfax Court House
Centerville
Miss Duval
Davis
G. Donnellan
Department of the Interior
Col. Jordan
McDowell
Donnellan
Greenhow
Diplomatic Corps
Corcoran
Muigh
Fortress Monroe
President Davis
Little Rose
Bull Run
England
France
Willington
Conderates
Bear River
New Inlet Bar
Night Hawk
Judge Holcombe
Wilson