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Female Spies of the Civil War

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In "Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy," New York Times-bestselling author Karen Abbott tells the stories of Belle Boyd, Emma Edmonds, Rose O'Neal Greenhow and Elizabeth Van Lew, four indomitable women who operated as spies during the American Civil War for both the Union and the Confederacy.