49 - THE SPY CONFEDERATES NEVER SUSPECTED… | Elizabeth “Crazy Bet” Van Lew (Union Spy) | Civil War

Elizabeth Van Lew was determined Richmond would fall, the sooner the better.

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Beneath her basket of groceries were secret Union dispatches written skillfully in invisible ink, folded innocuously like bookmarks between sheets of household shopping accounts.

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Two Confederate soldiers strolled past, rifles slung lazily across their shoulders.

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The soldiers tipped their hats and moved on, unsuspecting that the well-known local woman known as “Crazy Bet,” was in fact one of President Lincoln’s most devastating spies.

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Who was this daring woman who fully understood she would be immediately hung if caught as a spy for the North?

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But Elizabeth Van Lew viewed the Confederate rebellion as an abomination, an affront to the sacrifice of America’s Founding Fathers, men and women who gave their lives establishing a God-centered, free republic.

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So, when starving Union prisoners began to fill Richmond’s disease-infested Libby Prison to overflowing, she knew what she had to do...

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ELIZABETH VAN LEW / CIVIL WAR / SLAVERY / FREEDOM / LIBBY PRISON / SPY / TRADECRAFT / GREAT ESCAPE / MARY BOWSER / RICHMOND / WAR BETWEEN THE STATES / UNION / CONFEDERACY / 1864