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"Other woman where unofficial companions, such as those who hoped to become the mistresses of soldiers."(The Country Needed Men)

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By being a Union spy, Katherine hoped to guide them through the war and eventually lead them to victory. She hated the concept of slavery and was from the North. Katherine wanted slavery to end and was determined to help anyway possible.She even hoped to one day become a mistress of a solider,And there was no better way than to help their side win the war.

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Since women weren’t allowed to fight in the war, many women decided to spy because they wanted to do their part. Women wanted to help their side win the war without fighting and felt that this was their option. Spies like Katherine passed on secret information about one side, to the other. This helped troops navigate their opposers and prepare to attack.

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“I wanted to do my part, same as you.” (Private Ames, pbs.org)“Public Broadcasting Service.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/.

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“Most women became spies because they wanted to help their side win the war...Historians believe that more than 1,000 females..may have been involved with espionage.” (Spies in Petticoats)

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Soldiers like this would search people crossing the boarder.

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National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, search.archives.gov/search/images?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=national-archives&query=civil%2Bwar%2Bsoldier.

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National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, search.archives.gov/search/images?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=national-archives&query=hoop%2Bskirt.

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"Used an invisible ink to write our messages between the lines of ordinary letters. To make the hidden message turn black, he Union army member receiving the letter had only to add milk to the paper."

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https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/civil-war/preview/spies-and-conspiracies/

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“Confederate Camp.” Apple Computers: This Month in Business History (Business Reference Services, Library of Congress), Victor, www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.35460/

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National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, search.archives.gov/search/images?affiliate=national-archives&query=civil%2Bwar%2Bjournal.

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This is a journal that I kept describing my experiences as a spy. On this page I wrote about some of my time in Richmond prison. This journal also holds information about the times I would ask confederate soldiers about where their troops where located because It was always very hard to find them.

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“The Civil War.” William Tecumseh Sherman, www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/the-civil-war.htm.

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“Civil War Photos.”

National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, www.archives.gov/research/military/civil-war/photos.

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Here is a newspaper article written about me describing my job as a spy and my efforts in helping the Union. The article was published in Harper's Weekly, one of the most popular newspapers during the Civil War. It shocked people by showing what woman could do to impact the war.

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“Women’s clothing made it easy to hide information. Hoop skirts and petticoats...The many yards of fabric were perfect for hiding messages and papers, small packages and medical supplies attached easily to the frames of the hoop skirts.” (Spies In Petticoats)

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Sometimes when I was spying, I would take the risk of stealing confederate information in order to bring it to my alliance in the Union. For example, once I found an opened letter about the confederate plans for the near future. I replaced it with a different envelope, and hid the letter in my hoop skirt. It worked great to cover it up, and no one suspected a thing.

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This is one way I could send messages to Union officers without the Confederates knowing what I was saying. The letters on the upper two disks aligned with the numbers on the lower two disks. The letter "A" for example, would be sent as "81".

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It wasn't very hard to cross back and forth between Union and Confederate lines, because I was allowed to cross without being searched.

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"Consequently, soldiers allowed women and girls to cross Confederate lines without being searched."

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It was very hard to get my information for the Union. One way that I obtained it was by pretending to be a loyal Confederate to get into their camps.I became very good at getting people to tell me their plans on the up coming battles.

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-“Women Spies of the Civil War.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 8 May 2011, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-spies-of-the-civil-war-162202679/.

-Leveen, Lois. “A Black Spy in the Confederate White House.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 21 June 2012, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/a-black-spy-in-the-confederate-white-house/.

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

—“Public Broadcasting Service.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/.

-National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, search.archives.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=national-archives&query=USA%2Bfalg.

-Blashfield,Jean. Woman at the Front. New York,Franklin Watts, 1997

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"I served as a spy, once even disguising myself as African-American to get admitted to a Confederate army camp."

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Libby Prison, Richmond, Va. / sketched by W.C. Schwartzburg, Co. A, 24th Wis. Vols.

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1 print : color lithograph ; image 21.6 x 28.9 cm, on sheet 24.8 x 35.4 cm. | Print shows an exterior of Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, from across a street, with inmates behind barred windows and guards patrolling in front of the building.

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I had faced many challenges as a Civil War spy, but my biggest setback was being sent to Richmond prison. I was held there for four months before I escaped.

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I was very afraid of being caught when I first started spying, but after my capture, I wasn't as scared. It was almost as they were doing me a favor by putting me in prison, they toughened me up.

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"Anyone that has spent four months in Richmond prison does not get frightened easily."

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Birth date: June 7th, 1840, Richmond, VA
Death date: August 23rd 1894, Albany, NY
Siblings: Margaret Sherman, Madeline Sherman and Gracelyn Sherman
Parents: John Sherman, Elise Bowman
Occupation: A spy for the Union during the American Civil War

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Risky and challenging is how I would describe my life as a spy for the Union in the Civil War, because I put my own life in danger to support my side.