Four Women Undercover In The Civil War

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue

Published February 11, 2015 at 10:45 AM EST

In Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War - the stories of four courageous women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow - who were spies.

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