by Karen Abbott
“her ladyship”: Ibid.
“For this verdict of lunacy”: Boyd, In Camp and Prison, 327.
“in possession of a vast amount”: Ibid., 27.
“My dear Miss Belle”: Ibid., 327.
“deeply touched at this new proof”: Ibid., 336.
“neglect of duty”: Sigaud, Belle Boyd, 235.
“has made a fool of him”: Boston Post, September 8, 1864.
“Hon. Jefferson Davis”: Belle Boyd Hardinge to Jefferson Davis, RG 109, Unfiled Papers and Slips, National Archives.
there were ugly rumors: http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/JosephEvanDavis.aspx.
“I have said all the prayers”: Chesnut, Diary from Dixie, 306.
Grant’s Circular No. 31: Weitz, A Higher Duty, 57.
he had to cancel the entire operation: Davis, The Man and His Hour, 574.
“I say to the servant”: Van Lew, “Occasional Journal.”
The Delicacy of the Situation
“Van Lew rode out from his friend’s”: Richmond Whig, July 29, 1864.
“puts me to a great disadvantage”: Fishel, Secret War for the Union, 553.
With her back to the mantel: John P. Reynolds Jr., “Biographical Sketch of Elizabeth Van Lew,” Van Lew Papers, NYPL.
bacon was now $20 per pound: Robertson, Civil War Virginia, 109.
high-laced shoes cost $100: Richmond Enquirer, January 28, 1864.
never wearing out of Richmond the same shoes: Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 17, 1883.
“Do you think I am being watched?”: W. W. New to Miss King, Van Lew Papers, NYPL.
“good Yankees”: Testimony of John Liggon, September 26, 1864, RG 109, National Archives.
“I wish the Yankees would whip”: Testimony of Watt.
“violent and outrageous”: Testimony of Reverend Philip B. Price, September 17, 1864, RG 109, National Archives.
“go to the Yankees and take”: Testimony of A. B. Mountcastle, November 8, 1864, RG 109, National Archives.
Not at All Changed by Death
“Lock your doors. Keep inside”: Kaemmerlen, Sherman and the Georgia Belles, 67.
“complete and efficient”: Richmond Enquirer, November 28, 1864.
but not one cheer: Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American, 526.
“cold isolation”: Greenhow, “European Diary,” 128.
“elusive white”: Wise, Lifeline of the Confederacy, 150.
she had no superior: McNeil, Masters of the Shoals, 59.
had brought along his Newfoundland puppy: Ibid., 62.
Even the puppy made it: Ibid.
“A remarkably handsome woman”: Taylor, Running the Blockade, 128–29.
“lovely face, that graceful form”: Diary of William Lamb, Lamb Papers, College of William & Mary.
“She was an elegant woman”: Blackman, Wild Rose, 300.
“the uncertainty of all human projects”: Wilmington Sentinel, October 1, 1864.
“Let us accept the omen”: Ibid.
The Sweet Little Man
the property of an African princess: Boyd, In Camp and Prison, 346.
a tentative serenity: Wood, History of Martinsburg, 46.
“You’s Miss Belle’s husband”: Boyd, In Camp and Prison, 344.
“This was your room”: Ibid., 345.
“Of the two characters”: Pall Mall Gazette, June 9, 1865.
“lurking somewhere in the vicinity”: Daily Constitutionalist (Atlanta, GA), December 16, 1864.
“Is there anything remarkable about me”: Boyd, In Camp and Prison, 350.
“daily danger”: London Miner and Workman Advocate, December 31, 1864.
“sit and fan handsome young”: Edmonds, Nurse and Spy, 371.
“Her whole life was an interesting conundrum”: State Republican, June 26, 1900.
“We send you the buttonless garments”: Edmonds, Nurse and Spy, 333.
Like Most of Her Sex
“And further this deponent saith not”: Testimony of Mary C. Van Lew, October 15, 1864, RG 109, National Archives.
“wealth and position”; “no action to be taken”: Order of Charles Blackford, October 18, 1864, RG 109, National Archives.
Every evening, from seven to midnight: Badeau, Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, 243.
“The Government, from time to time”: OR, ser. 1, 42:710.
“plain classes” were anticipating: OR, ser. 1, 42:1108.
“the enemy are planting torpedoes”: Butler, Private and Official Correspondence, 5:355.
Mary Jane Bowser, looking as if: Hall, e-mail, March 2013.
The Way a Child Loves Its Mother
“destroyer”: Boyd, In Camp and Prison, 460.
“Honble Abraham Lincoln”: Sigaud, “When Belle Boyd Wrote Lincoln,” 15–22.
reaching America in eight days: Ibid.
“Let the execution of William B. Compton”: OR, ser. 2, 5:711.
“a factory chimney with the top broken off”: Brown and Dickey, Rough Guide to Washington, 46.
an escaped Confederate prisoner had recently skated: Washington Post, December 4, 2008.
“the two countries”: Long and Long, Civil War Day by Day, 623.
She suspected the Federal government: Harrisburg Patriot, March 30, 1865.
an “unfashionable” part of town: London Standard, February 3, 1865.
“I’d rather be there as I was”: Ibid.
“the fool who had married”: Keyes, unpublished autobiography, Curtis Carroll Davis papers.
“a child loves its mother”: Boston Journal, March 31, 1893.
As This Mighty Work Was Done
shoveled horse manure on top of her: Hall, e-mail, March 2013.
“Emma G. Plane”: Fay Papers, Library of Virginia.
“a most efficient railroad officer”: Richmond Sentinel, January 26, 1865.
honorably discharged: Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, 186.
“My heart sank”: Van Lew, “Occasional Journal.”
“Tell all you know”: Ibid.
“Blow away”: Ibid. The detective sighed, lowered his pistol, and threw his prisoner into solitary confinement.
a Confederate plan: Stuart, “Samuel Ruth and General R. E. Lee: Disloyalty and the Line of Supply to Fredericksburg.” New York Herald Tribune, March 10, 1865.
“engine-runners, machinists, blacksmiths”: Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, 188.
“Everybody turned out upon the streets”: OR, ser. 1, 46:525.
“May God bless you”: OR, ser. 1, 46:79–80.
“a letter from a lady in Richmond”: OR, ser. 1, 46:963.
“hold Five Forks at all hazards”: Pickett, Pickett and His Men, 266.
“end matters right there”: Furgurson, Ashes of Glory, 298.
he had given Varina a pistol: Wright, e-mail, November 2013.
“My lines are broken in three places”: Lossing, History of the Civil War, 404.
“The war will end now”: Van Lew, “Occasional Journal.”
“It would be better”: Ibid.
“The Negro troops will be turned loose on us!”: Duvall, Recollections of the War by Grandmama.
“If this house goes”: Annie Randolph Van Lew to Anna Van Lew Klapp, courtesy of Bart Hall.
“the consummation of the wrongs of years”: Van Lew, “Occasional Journal.”
“No wonder that the walls of our houses”: Ibid.
“I want nothing now”: Parker, Chatauqua Boy, 56.
it would be the first to fly: Eggleston, Women in the Civil War, 84; Wheelan, Libby Prison Breakout, 220; Hall, e-mail, January 2013.
a room with a gabled window: Hall, e-mail, January 2013.
Epilogue
“You have shared the hardships”: David Rankin Barbee Papers.
“The poor child’s tears never stop”: Blackman, Wild Rose, 303.
asked to be baptized: Ibid.
selling 175,000 copies: Gansler, The Mysterious Private Thompson, 185.
“dear old Stars and Stripes”:
Edmonds, Nurse and Spy, 354.
“too monotonous”: Gansler, The Mysterious Private Thompson, 187.
“you know how the census takers”: Dannett, She Rode with the Generals, 239.
War Department still officially denied: Blanton and Cook, They Fought Like Demons, 190.
“In Company F”: Robertson, Michigan in the War, 205.
“Can you by chance”: This scene between Emma and Damon Stewart is from Dannett, She Rode with the Generals, 246–47.
“She may have been the means”: Gansler, The Mysterious Private Thompson, 214.
“most remarkable character”: Ibid., 219.
“has faced shot and shell”: New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 12, 1866.
“utterly worthless”: Boston Traveler, April 28, 1866.
anxious to be rid of: Memphis Daily Avalanche, January 24, 1868.
Arthur Davis Lee Jackson: Letter from Belle Boyd to Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1882, Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Archives, American Civil War Museum.
her mind “gave way”: New York World, February 11, 1889.
“Her feet and brain”: Jackson City (MO) Patriot, November 18, 1869.
“imposing herself on the fraternity”: Curtis Carroll Davis, introduction, Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, 45.
confronted an Atlanta newspaper editor: Atlanta Constitution, November 10, 1874.
“private sorrows”: Curtis Carroll Davis, introduction, Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, 25.
“dead to the family”: New York World, February 11, 1889.
accused Belle of having her own affair: Undated clipping, Laura Virginia Hale Archives.
“boxed Mamma’s ears”: Dallas Morning News, January 1, 1964.
elocution lessons: New York Evangelist, June 4, 1885.
unsuccessful $50,000 lawsuit: Canton Ohio Repository, June 12, 1886.
she led thousands of rebels: Philadelphia Inquirer, August 13, 1886.
“She stood there looking”: Washington Daily News, September 19, 1941.
In a late interview: Abbott, “Belle Boyd, Teenage Spy for the Confederacy.”
“I have lied, sworn, killed”: Atlanta Constitution, September 2, 1900.
now headquarters of Union general Godfrey Weitzel: Alexandria Gazette, April 7, 1865.
“a most barbarous, unprovoked”: Elizabeth Van Lew Papers, College of William & Mary.
including ninety-one boxes of archives: Salem Register, May 15, 1865.
“valuable information”: Benjamin Butler, letter to the War Department, April 5, 1865, Elizabeth Van Lew Papers, NYPL.
taking a job teaching two hundred black children: Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, 197–98.
“She had no moral right”: J. Staunton Moore to William Gilmore Beymer, Box 2K394, Correspondence 1910, William Gilmore Beymer Papers.
“for a long, long time”: Sharpe to Comstock, Janaury 1867, Elizabeth Van Lew Papers, NYPL.
“I earnestly entreat you will”: Elizabeth Van Lew to Ulysses S. Grant, April 6, 1869, Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, November 1, 1876–September 30, 1878, 161.
“coarse taste”: Elizabeth Van Lew to “Gentlemen”: July 11, 1887, Elizabeth Van Lew Papers, NYPL.
“dried up maid”: Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, 216.
“the thirst for knowledge”: Ibid., 229.
“As a woman”: Ibid., 230–31.
“nigger funeral”: Ibid., 230.
“I tell you truly”: Elizabeth Van Lew to Ulysses S. Grant, February 3, 1881, Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, October 1, 1880–December 31, 1882, 132.
a sixty-one-foot-tall: Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 39, 1890.
“Save her! Save her!”: Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, 250.
“They say I am dead?”: Washington Post, August 5, 1900.
“I done hear Miss Lizzie”: Varon, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy, 257.
“We must get these flowers”: Roberts, Civil War Ghost Stories and Legends, 129–30.
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