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• Emmeline Piggott — was a Confederate States of America spy from North Carolina. For several years, she hid secret messages in her skirt and carried them between New Bern, North Carolina and the sea ports. She was almost caught several times. Eventually, Union… …   Wikipedia

• Laura Pender — When Laura Pender was coming back from a trip to Bermuda a Federal ship attacked her little boat. Her husband, Joseah Pender, was going to surrender because his crew was much smaller. Mrs. Pender said she would stand on the deck risking her life… …   Wikipedia

• Lily Mackall — was a messenger for Rose Greenhow who was a Confederate spy. She basically delivered messages to her. Lily eavesdropped outside government headquarters. Lily was a spy like Rose. When the government started tracking Lily and Rose, they tricked… …   Wikipedia

• Betty Duvall — When Betty Duvall was young, she became a Confederate spy. Elizabeth Van Lew gave her a note about a Union plan, and Betty tucked it in her hair. Betty Duvall was from Washington, D.C. She continued to be a spy and for one of her missions she… …   Wikipedia

• Nancy Hart (civil war) — Nancy Hart was a spy for the Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. The Union government offered a reward to whomever caught her, and she was captured in 1862. Nonetheless, she escaped and gathered 200 Confederate soldiers. [Jill, Canon. Civil… …   Wikipedia

• Elizabeth Carraway Howland — was a Confederate spy during American Civil War.Union soldiers captured her town of New Bern, North Carolina. She made useful medicine for captured Confederate soldiers. She helped Confederates smuggle food. Rebels tried and failed to retake… …   Wikipedia

• Anna Etheridge — Lorinda Anna Blair Etheridge (1839 ndash;1913), also known as Michigan Annie and Gentle Annie, was a Union nurse and Vivandiere who served during the American Civil War.Anna Etheridge was born Lorinda Anna Blair in 1839 in Wayne County, Michigan …   Wikipedia

• Belle Reynolds — of Peoria, Illinois was born on October 20, 1840. Reynolds joined her husband who was enlisted with the Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Army and traveled with him to battle during the American Civil War. She became a heroine because of her… …   Wikipedia

• Kady Brownell — helped the Union army during the American Civil War. She went with her husband when he joined a Rhode Island regiment. Kady trained with the soldiers. She fought in battle and helped the injured. At the First Battle of Bull Run, she held the flag …   Wikipedia

• Corneille, Thomas — (1625 1709)    writer, dramatic poet    Born in Rouen, Thomas Corneille was the younger brother of the dramatist pierre corneille. His abundant works are very diverse: tragedies (Timocrate, 1656, which was the greatest success of the 17th… …   France. A reference guide from Renaissance to the Present