Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-05-31

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ia defeat the Uataa array.
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eraey untgl she linton sflrers he3aa so sassatt
her and jackson ordered EsF t0 move fFSsn hsg
Shenandoah home to NinehesseF, sha Bad hses
arrested Ivy the Fedarai3 aad had atFtea heF aHy
ia iherfsfoT aAe sas pretty Esgf. despite the
libeions photographs os her In Ninrhestss, luek.
son conferred upon her commission Snptala
las the Confederate army BS tAEs fssse faa Raasle
/ North had hsenne aeanra az fhe services sh@ was
rendering The reuteierncr. aftd syrrg nEacrr nna
private was fite ntarf ~ gaa hrf let ah#
caped until 1874 whea ahe VAS caught oa block
aae runner Hsr eapfar lost his heart TO hass
deserted The navy. aaa married her and tha
prince OF Wales, afterward Edsgara VII attsnss@&
/ the weffing.
Belle Eaya ts tbs snasf faia4gus Of sire sples h5s
! there are many sthers wha deserve Of least #s
1 much fame az she wan. spne % shefn saN Eba-
beth B Van Lew who had lilac Incredible r6urags
/ she war There sRa 1905 a moment during tisase
| fonr years when Iizsie vAn Lew could hear saep
behind her the street pithauf expecting 10 hafr
| somebody tap her on the shoulder aud say. aea
are my prisoner" She did Hat eoatine hes Hettvt-
ties 10 spying aud reporting what she had His
covered 10 the Union generals; ahc hid escaped
prisoners In her house. ahe dealt og messages ta
soldiers IN Libby from their homes her resources
were endless One Of her fasartts desiecs WAS
metal platter with Joubia bottom. ia wlsch she
Nsrt.e
Once n Confederate soldier, whose suspicion had
/ been aroused, insisted examining II: but that
4 day rizzle who hnd heen expecting some move
1 of this kind had ailed the false bottom not with
secret messages bnt With scald!ng water, and the
soldier dropped IL with shrek.
Ilzze Van Lew had secret recess in her
house hiding place for dispatches Sometimes
she would move hand Idly toward this recess,
and an hour or two later some old aeerass an
parently busting the room, would slip her hand
back OF the inanter aud find dispatch which
would go TO Grant that day. Is was LEzs Samn
Lew who stole the body Of Col. uiric nahlgreh
and smuggiea II out of Richmond, one Of the most
daring exploits oS The war.
Rosa b. Greenhow was Il Confederate spy I'm
Washington who da2zled the Union In the early
days of the war II was one Of her assistants, q
Miss puvai Of Washington, who brought Bsnairs'
gard the first news of McDoweis advance aud en-
abled him and Johnson 10 foil the Federal pianS
for the campaign of Enli Run Mrs. GreenhoW
sent Miss Duyal TO EeaaFegard on July 10, CIV
Ing him the first news of the contemplated aat
J vance, and on July i6 she sent him word OF tila
5 forces and the contemplated movement OF the
Union army. He promptly wired tile information
to Davis and the word was sent to Johnson which
resulted In his advance and the terrible dnwnfail
OF the Northern cause.
The Northern secret service was technically
nnder the direction of Gen. Lafayette G. Baker.
+ man without scr1ipie. After the war Baker IN
: sisted on taking TO himself most ef the credit fof
G what had been done III detective work, put as
matter OF fact the best work done In the war WAS
J. done by volunteers. men and women, VINO Wers
& willing to risk shameful death to serve theii
/ country. Many Of them were private soldiers
t some we're enlisted among Allan Pinkerton's DC
= tecfiyes OF these the most famous was Timothy
r Webster one OF the greatest detectives who eyei
r lived Webster succeeded in getting the South .
believe In him to such extent that he came neal
4 being made the colonel of an Alabama regiment
d and In Baltimore he member OF the knighti
Y OF Liberty. He even became trusted emissars
d Of the Confederate war department at Richmond
ana at Pittsburgh UnIan mob tried TO lynch hin
% as d Confederate spy Nothing saved him but TIL
s. arrival Of Allan Pinkerton, with drawn revolver
il and webster and Pinkerton backed against th
d valI and stood of the mob until help arrived
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