The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1917-05-25

1867, after jackson hau rouleu
Banks and driven him in confusion up the line OF
the Shenandoah, he wrote this letter:
Miss Belle Boyd: l thank you for myself and
for the army for the immense service that you have
rendered your country today"
The Union General Shields quartered at
Miss Boyd's house. He held a council of war
there. Miss Boyd bored a hole in the floor of her
chamber, which over Shields room, and lay
there with her ear to 1t throughout the night The
next morning Stonewall Jackson was in full pos
sion of the plans for great battle, and was able
to defeat the Union army
She kept up her valiant work for the Confed-
eracy until the Union officers began to suspect
her, and Jackson ordered her to move from her
Shenandoah home to Winchester She had been
arrested by the Federals and had flirted her way
to liberty-fOr she a pretty girl despite the
libelOus photographs of her. In Winchester, Jack
son conferred upon her a commission as captain
in the Confederate army. BY this time the whole
North had become aware of the services she was
rendering the Confederacy, and every officer and
private was the alert to get her. Yet she es-
capped until 1864 when she was caught on block
ade runner Her captor lost his heart to her,
deserted the navy, and married her, and the
prince of Wales afterward Edward VII, attended
the wedding.
Belle Boyd is the most famous of the spies, but
there are many others WHO deserve at least as
much fame as she won. One of them was Ellba-
beth b. Van Lew, who had the incredible courage
to act as a Union spy in Richmond throughout
the war. There not a moment during those
four years when Lizzie Van Lew could hear step
behind her on the street without expecting to have
somebody tap her on the shoulder and say, You
are my prisoner" She did not contine her actiVi-
ties to spying and reporting what she had dis
covered to the Union generals; she hid escaped
prisoners in her house, she dealt out messages TO
soldiers in Libby from their homes; her resources
were endless. One of her favorlte devices was
q metal platter with a double bottom, in which she
used to pretend to convey food to the prisoners.
Once Confederate soldier, whose suspicion had
been aroused insisted examining it; but that
day Lizzie who had been expecting some move
of this kind had filled the false bottom not with
secret messages but with scalding water, ana the
soldier dropped it with a Shrek
Lizzie Van Lew had a secret recess in her
house, a hiding place for dispatches. Sometimes
she would move hand idly toward this recess
and an hour or two later some old negress, ap-
parently busting the room, would slip her mana
back of the mantel and find a dispatch Whch
would 90 to Grant that day 1t was Lizzie van
Lew who stole the body of Col. Uric Dahlgreh
and smuggled 1t out of Richmond, one of the most
daring exploits of the war.
Rosa B. Greenhow was a Confederate spy III
Washington who dazzled the Union in the early
days Of the war. 1t was one of her assistants
Miss Duval of Washington, who brought Beaure-
gord the first news of McDowells advance ana en-
abled him and Johnson to foil the Federal plans
for the campaign of Bull Run. Mrs Greenhow
sent Miss Duval to Beauregard on July lO, CIV
ing him the first news Of the contemplated ad-
vance. and on July 16 she sent him word OF the
forces and the contemplated movement or the
Union army He promptly wired the Information
70 Davis and the word sent to Johnson whlch
resulted in his advance and the terrible downtaH
of the Northern cause
The Northern secret service was technically
under the direction of Gen. Lafayette c. Baker,
man without scrupe. After the war BAKER IN
sisted on taking to himself most of the credit 1or
what had been done in detective work, but as
matter of fact the best work done in the war was
done nv volunteers men and women, VINO were
willing 70 risk a shameful death to serve their
country Many of them were private soldlers'
some were enlisted among Allan Pinkertons ue-
+ectiyes OF these the most famous was Ilmothy
Webster one of the greatest detectives VINO ever
lived Webster succeeded in getting the SCUM 10
helieve in him to such extent that he came near
heing made the colonel of an Alabama regiment
and in baltimore he was member of the knlghts
NJ Liberty He even became a trusted emlssary
90 tho Confederate war department at Hichmohu,
ond a+ pittsburgh Union mob tried to lynch MN
oe q confederate spy Nothing saved him but the
,r;,ol of Allan PinkertOn with drawn revolver
and webster and PnkertOn backed against the
u ond stood off the mob until help arrived.
,va,s+ar was finally captured in Richmond, and