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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during 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.After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow, Rose O’Neale Greenhow, engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians to gather intelligence for the Confederacy, and used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond abolitionist, hid behind her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage ring, right under the noses of suspicious rebel detectives.Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies’ descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the adventures of these four heroines throughout the tumultuous years of the war. With a cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy draws you into the war as these daring women lived it.Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy contains 39 black & photos and 3 maps. 

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I was very much looking forward to this book, having a great interest in the Richmond Underground and women's roles in the Civil War. The writing is fine and the effort expended weaving the stories together is incredibly commendable. The problem I had with the book, however, is the author's heavy reliance on questionable first person sources, including both the subjects' memoirs and fictional details written after the war about Elizabeth Van Lew. This error pushes this book into the realm of fiction, and should be read as such. Emma Edmonds memoir is notoriously unreliable and the writings of Belle Boyd and Sarah Greenhow aren't much better. The author did point out that Emma was not, in fact, at Antietam and fabricated an incident that she said took place there, but did not question other elements of her story such as passing as Black while across the lines spying on the Confederates or nursing wounded comrades while impaired with a broken leg and internal injuries. Edmonds' entire memoir is questionable, which is actually typical of Civil War memoirs written by soldiers ranging from privates to generals like John Brown Gordon and Lawrence Chamberlain. The use of completely unsubstantiated stories about Mary Bowser's role as a spy in the Confederate White House was also disingenuous. Neither Mary nor Elizabeth Van Lew ever spoke of Mary's role as a spy and it's never been verified that she was ever employed by Varina Davis. If you are interested in Van Lew and the Richmond Underground, Elizabeth Varon's book, "Southern Lady, Yankee Spy", is a much better choice.

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