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This is Elizabeth Van Lew she was a very famous spy and one of Kathryns best friends.

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My friend Elizabeth Van Lew and I would spend our days pretending to celebrate Confederate victories. We would secretly send valuable information to union officers. Other days we would collect medicine and food to give to the prisoners during the civil war and in doing so, we would help them escape.

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"When I was younger I had a normal life. I lived with my mom, my dad, my two brothers and my grandma. We had no idea this war was coming. My grandma worked with the union so she knew everything. I always wanted to work with the union and so did my friend Elizabeth. Elizabeth Van Lew has been my friend for as long as I could remember. She wanted to work for the union also. I will always remember the main reason why I wanted to become a spy, because men didnt think women would get involved with such a dangerous job. Women were easily trusted and were not threats to the soldiers, this made would make my job easier because there was a small chance of getting caught."

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Girls and woman of all ages worked as spies. Most historians believed more that 1,000 females were involved with spying all over.

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-spies-of-the-civil-war-162202679/

Harper, Judith. "Spies in petticoats." Cobblestone, vol.36, no.9, Nov-Dec. 2015. pp.32-35

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/sarah-emma-edmonds

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Kathryn Elaine Clark

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Hoop skirt

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Kathryn would wake up at 4:00 in the morning each day. The girls in her group would meet up and talk. Most days they would have tasks. From going to get information from the president, to as small as buying food for dinner. All of their missions were very dangerous. Knowing that at any second if they get caught they are at risk of going to prison. Yet they still took the chance to help out. Thats why they became spies. Usually women spies were not married, just to make it easier for them to not have to support a family.

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Kathryn Elaine Clark was a spy for the Union. Kathryn was 18 when she first became a spy. Being a spy was very dangerous. She was risking her self as a spy to help the Union.

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Women's clothing had a huge impact on sneaking hidden documents, letters, or anything that you needed to sneak back to the government. Petticoats and hoop skirts were the fashion in the mid 1800's. There were secret  pockets inside the skirts to hide important papers or objects and take them back to their leader.

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"During the Civil war I had to collect information from the confederate nation. The leader of my group was Elizabeth Van Lew. We worked everyday to get secret information to help the Union."