Belle Boyd

Maria Isabella Boyd (9 ga Mayu, 1844  – 11 ga Yuni, 1900  ), wacce aka fi sani da Belle Boyd (kuma aka yi mata lakabi da Cleopatra na 'Yancin Kai   ko Siren na Shenandoah,   sannan daga baya ta zama Confederate Mata Hari    ) ' yar leƙen asiri ce ta Confederate a lokacin Yaƙin Basasa na Amurka . Ta yi aiki daga otal ɗin mahaifinta da ke Front Royal, Virginia, kuma ta ba da bayanai masu mahimmanci ga Janar Stonewall Jackson na Confederate a 1862.

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Maria Isabella "Belle" Boyd a ranar 9 ga Mayu, 1844, a Martinsburg, Virginia (wanda yanzu wani ɓangare ne na West Virginia ).  Ita ce babbar 'yar Benjamin Reed da Mary Rebecca (Glenn) Boyd.  Ta bayyana yarinta a matsayin mai ban sha'awa.  Bayan ɗan karatun farko a Martinsburg, ta halarci kammala karatunta a Kwalejin Mata ta Mount Washington da ke Baltimore, Maryland a shekarar 1856 tana da shekaru 12. 

 Ɗan leƙen asiri na kudu 
Aikin leƙen asiri na Boyd ya fara ne da bazata. A cewar labarinta na 1866, wata ƙungiyar sojojin Union ta ji labarin cewa tana da tutocin Confederate a ɗakinta a ranar 4 ga Yuli, 1861, kuma suka zo don su bincika. Sun rataye tutar Union a wajen gidanta. Sai ɗaya daga cikin mutanen ya zagi mahaifiyarta, wanda hakan ya fusata Boyd. Ta fito da bindiga ta harbi mutumin, wanda ya mutu bayan 'yan sa'o'i. Kwamitin bincike ya wanke ta daga kisan kai, amma an sanya masu gadi a kusa da gidan kuma jami'ai sun ci gaba da bin diddigin ayyukanta. Ta ci gajiyar wannan sabar da aka tilasta mata, inda ta burge aƙalla ɗaya daga cikin jami'an da ta ambata a cikin tarihin rayuwarta a matsayin Kyaftin Daniel Keily, 

Ta rubuta a cikin tarihin rayuwarta cewa ta yi wa Keily lada "saboda wasu kwararar ruwa masu ban mamaki, wasu busassun furanni, da kuma muhimman bayanai masu yawa."  Ta isar da waɗannan sirrin ga jami'an rundunar sojojin Confederate ta hanyar baiwarta Eliza Hopewell, wacce ta ɗauke su a cikin akwati mai ramuka. An kama Boyd a ƙoƙarinta na farko na leƙen asiri kuma an gaya mata. [ <span title="by who? (June 2021)">an buƙaci ambato</span> ] cewa za a iya yanke mata hukuncin kisa . 

Janar James Shields da ma'aikatansa sun taru a ɗakin otal ɗin da ke yankin a tsakiyar watan Mayu na shekarar 1862. Boyd ta ɓuya a cikin kabad ɗin ɗakin, tana sauraron abin da ke faruwa ta cikin wani rami da ta faɗaɗa a ƙofar. Ta ji cewa an umarci Shields da su gabas daga Front Royal, Virginia. A daren, ta hau keke ta layin Union, ta yi amfani da takardun ƙarya don ɓata hanyarta ta wuce masu gadi, sannan ta ba da labarin ga Kanar Turner Ashby, wanda ke neman Confederate. Daga nan ta koma gari. Lokacin da Confederate suka ci gaba da kai hari ga Front Royal a ranar 23 ga Mayu, Boyd ta gudu don gaishe da mutanen Stonewall Jackson, suna guje wa harbin bindiga da ke jefa harsashi a cikin rigarta, kamar yadda littafin tarihinta ya nuna. [ <span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2019)">ana buƙatar ambato</span> ]  Ta roƙi wani jami'i ya sanar da Jackson cewa "ƙarfin Yankee ƙanana ne [...] Ka gaya masa ya yi karo da su nan take zai kama su duka." 

Jackson ta yi hakan kuma ta rubuta mata takardar godiya: "Ina gode miki, ni da kuma rundunar sojojin, saboda gagarumin aikin da kika yi wa ƙasarki a yau."   Saboda gudummawar da ta bayar, an ba ta lambar yabo ta Southern Cross of Honor .  Jackson ta kuma ba ta mukamai na kyaftin da mataimakinta na girmamawa. 

An kama Boyd aƙalla sau shida amma ta wata hanya ta kauce wa tsarewa.  A ƙarshen watan Yulin 1862, jami'in bincike Allan Pinkerton ya tura mutane uku don su yi aiki a kan lamarinta.  Jami'an Union sun kama ta a ranar 29 ga Yuli, 1862, bayan da masoyinta ya ba ta, kuma suka kawo ta gidan yarin Old Capitol da ke Washington, DC washegari.   An gudanar da bincike a ranar 7 ga Agusta, 1862, game da keta umarnin cewa a tsare Boyd a kusa.  An tsare ta na tsawon wata guda kafin a sake ta a ranar 29 ga Agusta, 1862, lokacin da aka yi musayar ta a Fort Monroe.  An sake kama ta a watan Yunin 1863, amma an sake ta bayan ta kamu da zazzabin typhoid. 

A watan Maris na shekarar 1864, Boyd ya yi ƙoƙarin tafiya Ingila, amma an tare ta da shingen da ƙungiyar Tarayyar Turai ta yi mata, aka kuma tura ta zuwa Kanada inda ta haɗu da jami'in rundunar sojojin ruwa ta Tarayyar Turai Samuel Wylde Hardinge. Su biyun sun yi aure a Ingila. [ <span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (October 2022)">yaushe?</span> ]  kuma tana da 'ya mace, Grace.  Boyd ta zama 'yar wasan kwaikwayo a Ingila bayan mutuwar mijinta don tallafa wa 'yarta. [ <span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2019)">ana buƙatar ambato</span> ] Bayan mutuwar mijinta a shekarar 1866, ita da 'yarta suka koma Amurka. 

Boyd ta ɗauki sunan dandamali Nina Benjamin don yin wasa a birane da dama, daga ƙarshe ta ƙare a New Orleans inda ta auri John Swainston Hammond a watan Maris na 1869, wani tsohon jami'in sojan Burtaniya wanda ya yi yaƙi da rundunar sojojin Tarayyar Turai a lokacin Yaƙin Basasa. Sun haifi 'ya'ya maza biyu da 'ya'ya mata biyu; ɗansu na fari ya mutu tun yana jariri. Boyd ya saki Hammond a 1884 ya kuma auri Nathaniel Rue High a 1885. Daga baya ta fara yawon shakatawa a ƙasar tana ba da laccoci masu ban mamaki game da rayuwarta a matsayin ɗan leƙen asiri na Yaƙin Basasa. 

 Shekarun bayan yaƙi da mutuwa 
Boyd ta buga wani labari mai cike da almara game da abubuwan da suka faru a yaƙinta a cikin littafin Belle Boyd mai jigo biyu a sansanin soja da gidan yari . Ta mutu sakamakon bugun zuciya a birnin Kilbourn, Wisconsin ( Wisconsin Dells ) a ranar 11 ga Yuni, 1900, tana da shekaru 56. An binne ta a makabartar Spring Grove da ke Wisconsin Dells, tare da membobin Babban Sojojin Jamhuriyar a matsayin masu ɗaukar kabarinta. Tsawon shekaru, kabarinta ta karanta kawai:

 BELLE BOYD
 Ƙungiyar Leƙen Asiri
 AN HAIFE SHI A VIRGINIA
 YA MUTU A WISCONSIN
 AN GINA SHI DA ABOKIN AIKI 

 A cikin al'adun jama'a 

 Rayuwar Boyd ta zaburar da shirin fim ɗin shiru mai suna The Girl Spy . 
 Littafin The Smiling Rebel (1955) wani labari ne na Harnett Kane game da Boyd. 
 Boyd babban jarumi ne a cikin littafin Cherie Priest mai suna Clementine (2010) da kuma Fiddlehead (2013) mai taken "The Second". 
 Boyd ya bayyana a matsayin babban mai leƙen asiri a wasan kwamfuta na Firaxis Civilization 4 Beyond The Sword . [ <span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2023)">ana buƙatar ambato</span> ]

 Duba kuma 

 'Yan leƙen asirin Amurka na Yaƙin Basasa
 Hattie Lawton
 Kate Warne

 Manazarta