Wholesale Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy:Karen Abbott

Four Women Undercover in the Civil War | Paperback | Seventeen-year-old Belle Boyd, an avowed rebel with a dangerous temper, shoots a Union soldier in her home and becomes a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her considerable charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds disguised herself as a man to enlist as a Union private named Frank Thompson, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the war and infiltrating enemy lines. The beautiful widow Rose O'Neal Greenhow engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians, used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals, and sailed abroad to lobby for the Confederacy.