TIL a woman created one of the most successful spy networks for the Union in Richmond. So successful, she could send Union General Grant flowers from her garden and the Richmond daily paper Close. What makes this aside on prices especially interesting now is the rough equivalence between the Confederate dollar in 1864 and the US dollar in 2012 at least for the purpose of buying beef on the hoof. TIL a woman created one of the most successful spy networks for the Union in Richmond. 13, Richmond Civil War Centennial Commission. It brought $1,500 in Confederate money only about $75 in US currency.' A footnote to this statement references a 'Confederate Inflation Chart', Official publication No. Suspicion hounds her until she barely even trusts herself. One misstep could land her in prison, or worse. An ever increasing inflation was driving up the cost of everything and eventually they had to sell their cow. As Sophie's spy network grows, she walks a tightrope of deception, using her father's position as newspaper editor and a suitor's position in the ordnance bureau for the advantage of the Union. 'Another problem for Elizabeth and her mother was finding money to pay for their spy efforts. The editor's introduction contains this interesting comment (p 17): I suppose even that is worth putting in print, but it's definitely a reference for specialists. So much of Lew's papers were destroyed at war's end, in order to eliminate incriminating evidence, that what remains is literally small fragments of her wartime journals. Though her neighbors with Confederate sympathies clearly despised her, and shunned her, they did not kill her or even drive her out of the community. Within days, Virginia joined the Confederacy. Hearing the news, the people of Richmond celebrated in the streets.

EarthCam provides complete infrastructure services to manage, host and maintain live streaming video solutions for its consumers and corporate clients. Union prisoners to escape, and a spy network, which provid. After Greenhows capture, the cipher that. Unlike other Southern Unionists, Van Lew did not get swept up in the initial tide of Confederate patriotism. through federal and Confederate lines to Richmond. Explore unique and interesting locations around the world with 4K streaming technology. Born to a prominent slave-holding Richmond family with Northern roots, Elizabeth Van Lew attended a Quaker school in Philadelphia, where she developed a strong attachment to the antislavery cause. The Southern culture's toleration for eccentricity seems the only plausible explanation for the survival of this character not only during the war, but until September of 1900. On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on the Union-held Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. EarthCam is the leading network of live streaming webcams for tourism and entertainment.

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