Discover the Stories of the Confederacy’s Female Spies

Discover the lives of Rose O’Neal Greenhow, Belle Boyd, Laura Ratcliffe, and Antonia Ford — four women who used their wits and wiles to spy for the Confederacy during the US Civil War. Learn how they contributed to the Confederate war effort and what happened to them after the war.

Michelle Seddon of James A. National Garfield Historic Site will explain how the women gathered intelligence, shared that information with Confederate leaders, and what happened to them after the war.

By the way, if you’re interested in Civil War history, several talks in our Civil War series with Garfield National Historic Site can be viewed online in their entirety, including:

• Antietam: The Deadliest Day in US History
• The Atlanta Campaign
• Gettysburg
• The Fourteenth Amendment
• The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Life & Legacy of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain