The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-05-24

lSb2, after jackson had routed
Banks and driven him in confusion up the line of
the Shenandoah. he this letter:
Miss Belle Boyd: thank you for myself and
for the army for the immense service That have
rendered your country today
The Union General Shields was uunrtered at
Miss Boyds house. He held n council of
there. Miss Boyd bored hole in the floor of her
chamber. which was over Shields room. and lay
there with her ear to it throughout the night. The
next morning Stonewa Jackson was in full pos
sion of tfs 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 move from her
Shenandoah home to Winchester. She had been
arrested by the Federals and had hrted her way
to liberty-for she was pretty girl. despite the
lbelous 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
rendering the Confederacy. and every officer and
private the alert to get her. Yet she
capped until 1864 when she was caught on block
ade runner. Her cnptor 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 many others who deserve Mt least
much fame she One of them was Eba-
beth B. van Lew. who had the incredible courage
to Union spy in Richmond throughout
the There not moment during those
four years when Lizzie Van Lew could hear step
behind her the street without expecting to have
somebody tap her on the shoulder and say. "iou
are my prisoner" She did not confine 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
endless. One of her favorite devices was
n metal platter with double bottom. in which she
used to pretend to convey food to the prisoners.
Once Confederate soldier. whose suspicion had
heen aroused, insisted on examining 1t; but that
day Lizzie. who had been expecting some move
of this kind, tnd filed the false bottom not with
secret messages but with scalding water, and the
soldier dropped 1t with n shrek.
Lizzie vnn Lew had secret recess in her
house. n hiding place for dispatches. Sometimes
she would move n hand idly toward this recess
and hour two later some old negress. ap-
parenty busting the room. would slip her hand
back of the mante and find dispatch which
would go to Grant that day. 1t was Lizzie Van
Lew who stole the body of Col. Uric Dahlgren
and smuggied it out of Rchi.ond. one of the most
daring exploits of the war.
Rosa II. Greenhow was Confederate spy In
Washington who dazzed the Union In the early
days of the war. 1t was one of her assistants.
Miss Duvai of Washington. who brought Beaure-
gard the first news of McDowells advance ana en-
nhcd him and Johnson to foil the Federal plans
for the campaign of Bull Run. Mrs. Greenhow
sent Miss Duval to Beauregard on July TO- CIV
ing him Se first news of the contemplated al
vance and on July 16 she sent him word of the
forces and the contemplated movement of the
Union army. He promptly wired the Information
t., Davis and the word was sent to Johnson which
resulted In his advance and the terrible downfall
of the Northern cause
The Northern secret service was techn1cni'y
under the direction of Gen. Lafayette c. Baker n
mnn without scrupe. After the war Baker in
sisted on tnking to himself most OF the credit Tor
what hac been done in detective work. but as a
matter of f.ct the best work done In the war was
done by volunteers men and women, who were
willing to risk n shameful death to serve their
country Many of them were private soldiers =;
some wee enlisted among Allan Pinkertons de-
tectives OF these the most famous was Timothy
Webster one of the greatest detectives VINO ever
lived Webster succeeded in getting the South TO
believe in him to such extent that he came near
being made the colonel of an Alabama regiment,
and In Baltimore he member of the nnlshts
of Liberty. He even became n trusted e'iiisSaFE
of the Confederate department Mt Richinond,
,nd Mt Pittsburgh Union mob tried to iynch MIN
as n Confederate spy. Nothing saved him but the
arrival of Allan Pinkerton, with n drawn revolver
and Webster and Pinkerton backed against the
wall and stood off the mob until help arrived
rod In N