Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

by Karen Abbott

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  INDEX

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  abolitionists, 6, 16, 22, 39, 40, 78, 93, 258, 322, 358–59, 370, 423, 428

  Adams, Charles Francis, 370–72

  Adams, John Quincy, 370

  agriculture, 6, 17, 143, 144

  aid societies, xii, 227

  Alabama, 61, 114, 294, 295, 386

  Alabama, CSS, 370

  Albany Evening Journal, 116

  alcohol, 6, 16, 60, 63, 67, 71, 80, 103, 110, 123, 133, 139, 271, 281, 362, 410

  Alexander, George W., 159–60, 165

  Alexandria, 64, 89, 122, 249

  Alien Enemies Act, 47

  American Revolution, 7, 155

  amputations, 17, 34, 57, 185, 280, 293

  Anaconda Plan, 113

  Andersonville, Georgia, 44, 367, 381

  Antietam, Battle of, 247–48, 248, 249, 305

  Appalachian Mountains, 54

  Appomattox River, 383

  Arkansas, xi

  Armory Band, 129

  Army of Northern Virginia, 213

  Army of the Cumberland, 278–79

  Army of the Potomac, 59, 94, 121, 136, 152, 210, 213, 226, 242, 256, 261, 264, 277, 278, 414

  arson, 41

  Arthur, Chester A., 418

  Articles of War, 53

  Ashby, Turner, 54, 190, 191, 200

  Atlanta, 284, 379, 386, 421

  Atlantic Monthly, 60

  Babcock, Lemuel, 406

  bacon, 77, 407

  bacterial infections, 298

  Baker, Hilary, 39

  Baker, Lafayette C., 179–80

  Ballard House, Richmond, 215–16, 251, 252, 304

  balls, 5, 7, 23, 180, 237, 339

  Ball’s Bluff, 121, 129

  Baltimore, 10, 27, 246, 294, 316, 342

  martial law, 316

  Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 6, 136, 296

  Banks, Nathaniel, 190, 203, 205, 218–19, 313

  bathing, 90, 113

  Battery Martin Scott, 28

  Beal, George, 202–3

  Beauregard, P. G. T., 5, 19–22, 27, 28, 54, 102, 103, 180, 295, 306

  at Bull Run (Manassas), 32, 67–68

  encrypted messages to, 27–30, 67–69, 72, 74, 89, 105, 109, 122

  Beaver Dam Creek, Battle of, 225–26

  bedbugs, 148

  Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison (Boyd), 392, 404

  Belle Isle prison, 311

  Benjamin, Judah P., 254, 322, 350

  Bentley, Richard, 321

  Bermuda, 305, 308

  Berret, James G., 26, 115

  Bible, 92, 93, 123, 230

  Bier, George H. (Captain Henry), 350–53, 374

  Bindell, M., 64

  black market, 164

  blacks, 40, 314

  in Bermuda, 308

  dialect, 180

  education of, 125

  free, 40, 124–30, 181, 411

  as house servants, 40, 52, 78–79, 82–83, 124–30

  as postal workers, 425, 426

  in prison, 146–47

  Reconstruction and, 425–26

  Richmond Underground and, 252–58

  role in spying, 52, 73, 83, 124–30, 180–83, 200–202, 227–33, 252–58, 293–94, 306, 341, 380, 382, 405–6

  white spies in black disguise, 180–83

  See also slavery

  Bledsoe, A. G., 80

  blockade, 50, 58, 61, 73, 77, 100–101, 101, 102–3, 253, 283, 305–9, 336–37, 349–55, 372, 386, 387

  Belle Boyd and, 100–103

  Great Britain and, 306–9, 349–55, 356

  runners, 100–103, 145, 294, 305–9, 349–55, 356, 375, 378, 387, 388, 403

  Blue Ridge Mountains, 4, 54

  Bonaparte, Jérôme, 103

  bonds, Confederate, 352

  bone souvenirs, 265–66, 266

  Bonham, Milledge Luke, 28–29

  “Bonnie Blue Flag,” 112, 222

  Booth, John Wilkes, 100

  Borden’s Guard Artillery, 103

  Boston, 374, 375, 418

  society, 147

  Boston, William, 301

  Boston Post, 377

  Boteler, Alexander, 322, 338

  Botts, John Minor, 225, 254

  bounty jumpers, 145

  Boutelle, Charles O., 327, 329

  Bowie, Wat, 180

  bowie knives, 99, 103, 162

  Bowser, Mary Jane, 79, 82–83, 124–30, 160, 227, 233, 252, 396, 398, 424

  escape of, 405–6, 411

  as spy in Confederate White House, 126–30, 227–33, 252–58, 287, 293–94, 306, 327, 341, 362, 380, 398, 405

  Bowser, Wilson, 79, 228, 230–31

  Boyd, Belle, 3, 3, 4–10, 28, 49–56, 96, 98, 419

  Battle of Front Royal and, 202–9

  blockade running and, 100–103, 349–55, 375

  Benjamin Butler and, 316–19

  as Confederate spy, 51–56, 96–98, 98, 99–103, 133–40, 187–92, 200–209, 218–23, 250–51, 258–60, 268, 293–300, 312–19, 349–55, 391–93, 402, 421

  death of, 423

  education of, 7

  exiled in Richmond, 251–52, 258–60, 316–19, 349

  John Swainston Hammond and, 420–22

  handwriting of, 52–53

  Samuel Hardinge and, 354–55, 373–79, 391–93, 401–3, 420

  impersonators, 421

  Stonewall Jackson and, 136–40, 191–92, 206–8, 222–23, 238, 251, 258–60, 268–69, 294–95, 315, 319

  Lincoln and, 401–3

  memoir of, 392, 404

  paramours of, 133–34, 189, 200, 218–19, 250, 294, 314, 373

  Pinkerton report on, 220–21

  postwar life, 419–23

  in prison, 234–41, 246, 250–51, 259, 298–300, 312–15, 403

  scar of, 241

  stage career, 40, 419, 419, 420, 422

  trapped by Union spy, 221–23, 234

  travel to Europe, 349–55, 373–80, 419–20

  Underground Railroad and, 96–103

  Yankee killed by, 8–10, 49–50, 97

  Boyd, Benjamin, 33, 56, 298, 299, 315, 316, 319

  Boyd, Grace, 419, 421

  Boyd, Mary, 9, 10, 49, 96, 133–34, 235–36, 296–99, 319, 391, 393

  Boyd House, 259

  Brady, Matthew, photograph by, 147

  Brazil, 305

  bread riots, 283, 283, 284–88, 340

  Breckinridge, John C., 74

  Bremer, Frederika, 39

  bridges, 269, 423

  Brinkman, Thomas, 387

  British West Indies, 320


  Brown, John, 6, 93, 370, 423

  Buchanan, James, 23, 26, 145, 236, 377

  Buck, Lucy, 235, 296

  Bull Run (Manassas), 19, 31–36, 60, 66, 244–46, 265, 295

  Confederate intelligence on, 27–30, 53, 66–68, 170, 217

  First Battle of, 19, 22, 30–37, 47, 53, 57, 63, 68, 80, 266

  Second Battle of, 244–46

  Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 404

  Bumpass, Orville C., 63

  Bunker Hill, 258–59

  Bureau of Military Information, 328–29, 342, 424

  Burke, John, 180

  Burnside, Ambrose, 113, 264, 267–68, 278, 328

  Butler, Benjamin, 317–17, 317, 318–19, 326–31, 340, 360, 369, 381

  Belle Boyd and, 316–19

  Elizabeth Van Lew and, 327–31, 343–45, 363–65, 423

  Byron, Lord, 373

  Calhoun, John C., 23, 145

  California, 23, 55, 167

  camp followers, 62–63, 139

  Camp Lee, 126, 158

  Camp Parole, 243, 265, 275

  Canada, 15, 17–18, 93, 94, 375, 376, 414, 415

  candy, 112–13

  Cape Fear, 390

  Cape Fear River, 350, 386–89, 413

  Capitol, U.S., 11, 13, 64, 71, 143, 144, 246

  Caribbean, 100

  Carlyle, Thomas, 320–21, 357

  Carrington, Eliza, 232, 362, 425

  Carroll Prison, 299–300, 312–15, 393

  Cashmeyer, Philip, 364–65

  Castle Godwin, 158–60, 164, 215

  Castle Thunder, 364, 366, 406, 410

  cats, 284

  cavalry reconnaissance, 328

  chamber pots, 113, 316–17

  Chancellorsville, Battle of, 293

  chaplains, 157, 212

  Charleston, xi, 50, 295, 305–6, 311

  Charleston Daily Courier, 47

  Chattanooga, Tennessee, 313, 322

  Cherry, Dr., 134

  Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, 136

  Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, 300

  Chesapeake Bay, 144, 243

  Chestnut, James, Jr., 68

  Chestnut, Mary, 68, 116, 216

  Chicago Tribune, 422

  Chickahominy River, 81, 193, 194, 197, 199, 210, 214, 224–26, 342

  children

  in prison, 141–50, 167–77, 209, 240

  role in espionage, 112–13, 122, 228–29

  Church Hill mansion, Richmond, 40, 41, 46, 75, 76, 77–83, 124–26, 159–60, 163–64, 227–30, 309–11, 325–27, 361–67, 382–85, 406, 410–12, 426–27, 427, 428–29

  secret room, 81–82, 83, 163, 227–29, 311, 325, 346, 348, 366, 412, 426