Rose O'Neale Greenhow (1817-1864) was a renowned Confederate spy. As a leader in Washington, D.C. society during the period prior to the American Civil War, she travelled in important political circles and cultivated friendships with presidents, generals, senators, and high-ranking military officers, using her connections to pass along key military information to the Confederacy at the start of the war. On August 23, 1861, she was apprehended and placed under house arrest. On January 18, 1862, Greenhow was transferred to Old Capitol Prison. Her eight-year-old daughter "Little" Rose, was permitted to remain with her. On May 31, 1862, Greenhow and her daughter were released from prison. In September 1864, Greenhow travelled on the Condor, a British blockade runner which ran aground at the mouth of the Cape Fear River near Wilmington, North Carolina. Fearing capture and reimprisonment, Greenhow fled the grounded Condor by rowboat. The rowboat was capsized by a wave, and Greenhow, weighed down with $2,000 worth of gold from her memoir royalties intended for the Confederate treasury, drowned.

Rose O'Neal was a beautiful, well-educated, and charming Washington, D. C. socialite at the beginning of the War Between the States with connections to significant U.S. government officials. Born into the Maryland aristocracy, and the widow of a Virginian, her loyalty was covertly with the Confederacy. Rose used her wiles and connections to learn weighty secrets of Union military operations and passed this intelligence on to the Confederates. Eventually, she was imprisoned. In her own words, this is the story of her imprisonment at the Old Capitol Prison in D. C. The reader will be amused by her candid comments on those who made up the Washington elite in those stirring days. There have been several reprints of this 1863 book, but this one, while remaining true to the original text, has annotations and background information that will aid the modern reader in a clearer understanding of some of the subjects to which she is referring. Her frequent use of French and Latin terminology has also been footnoted with definitions. This 2019 reprint edition has a bonus supplement telling of Rose's tragic demise and what happened to her children. The book has additional illustrations not appearing in the original.

More than one hundred and fifty years after her dramatic death by drowning, Civil War spy and diplomatRose Greenhow remains as polarizing and controversial as she was in life. This scholarly edition of her1863 memoirs enhances her work for the first time with copious footnotes, a complete index, and anintroduction placing it within the context of her years in the nation's capital, her espionage, and herdiplomatic mission to Europe.

Provides the birth and death dates, astrological sign, nicknames, famous words, and little-known or bizarre facts about the lives of over twenty-five people on the Union and Confederate sides of the Civil War.

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