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Ten Fascinating Women Who Served As Civil War Spies FAIR-USE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Credits to https://listverse.com/ When the Civil War started in 1861, men from all over the country rushed to fight for their respective sides. There was less for women to do, by comparison, as they simply didn’t engage in battle at the time. Sure, there were nurses aplenty helping out near the front lines and in war hospitals. And many more women assisted the war effort by doing things like servant work, domestic duty, and other labor-intensive jobs to help on the homefront. But one of the most interesting aspects of the time was the employment of a rare and disparate group of women as spies. Both the North and the South used female spies in various ways throughout the war. Unsuspecting generals, soldiers, and military intelligence officers on each side had no idea they were being watched carefully by turncoat women in their midst. In this list, you’ll learn all about ten fascinating women who served as spies during the Civil War. They risked their lives to help their side in the vicious four-year-long battle. Some of their stories are the stuff of movies. Now, more than 150 years later, historians still marvel at what they did to gather intelligence for their causes. Related: 10 Famous People Who Were Secretly Spying on Us 10 Antonia Ford Antonia Ford was part of a well-off Virginia family prior to the Civil War. She was an educated woman when the conflict broke out, too, having earned a degree in literature from the Buckingham Female College Institute. That alone put her in the upper crust of accomplished women at the time of the war. And then, as the battles began to rage, she took a step nobody else saw coming. At first, informally, Antonia passed along little bits of military intelligence she’d heard from Union soldiers. She shared the info with Confederate lieutenants and even General J.E.B. Stuart. Realizing her value to the South’s cause, Stuart had Antonia commissioned as an “aide-de-camp.” In his order, he demanded Confederate men regard Ford as a woman to “be obeyed, respected, and admired.”For months, Antonia worked her contacts—including a Union spy—and ferried information to Stuart. By 1863, Ford had shuttled so much information to Confederate generals that her spying was considered to be a decisive factor in Captain John Mosby’s win at Fairfax that year. Mosby took 33 prisoners in the vicious battle, including Union Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton. But Antonia’s personal luck would soon run out. A female Union spy by the name of Frances Jamieson tricked Antonia into revealing her decree from General Stuart. Union soldiers swooped in to arrest her, and Ford was hauled off to prison. Her story doesn’t quite end there, though. Amazingly, despite spying for her Confederate backers during the war, Ford fell in love with a Union major named Joseph C. Willard during her imprisonment. She gave up spying and married Willard. After the war, they had three children together. She lived out the rest of her life in quiet calm but forever was known as the South’s unlikely “Super Spy.” [1] 9 Pauline Cushman Major Pauline Cushman Fryer, Spy of the Cumberland Pauline Cushman was working as an actress in New Orleans when she married a man named Charles Dickinson. Not long after the Civil War began, Dickinson died, leaving Pauline rudderless and adrift. She joined an acting troupe that made it up to Kentucky in the middle of the war. By 1863, she was offered $300 from two Confederate soldiers to give a toast to the South on stage. Behind the scenes, she was a Union supporter—as was much of the rest of her troupe. So she went to a Union Colonel named Henry Moore to inquire about whether to accept the offer. He told her to do it, she did it, and then she got fired from the acting company. But the insider connection to those Confederate soldiers kicked off a new career for Pauline. Impressed by Cushman’s diligence and attention to detail, Colonel Moore hired her on as a Union spy. Quickly, Pauline was sent to Nashville to carry out her duties. There, she ingratiated herself...