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https://www.nps.gov/people/elizabeth-van-lew.htm

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Changing the course of Civil War history can be done in many ways, I choose to be a spy.

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"One  the most brilliant famous female world war spy"
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https://www.nps.gov/people/elizabeth-van-lew.htm

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Photo Credit; The Granger Collection

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In order to make to secret messages turn black, the Union army member recieving the message has to add milk to the paper to read it.

Van Lew and the other spies used an invisable ink to write own messages in between the lines of regular letters.

Van Lew also created a cipher, or in other words, code to help safeguard the  facts in her communications.

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"Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave, but over the community, the state."

-Elizabeth Van Lew

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Being a spy in the Civil War working for the Union. It was risky, and took a lot of my own time but it was worth it. To send messages I must invent ways to make the message in the most private ways possible.

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I gathered information on confederate troop strength and movements, then send my knowledge to help the Union.

I also joined the other Richmond unionist to create an underground railroad system.

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Me, being a female spy in the Civil War, it took a lot of my time and courage to persue my dream of being a female spy in the Civil War. Sometimes, without knowing what would happen next or what would happen to me, I would get nervous and scared. What if someone caught me? What if got seriously injured and people found out about my real identity?

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In the Civil War, woman wears the kind of clothing that fits the fashion. This kind of clothing also benefits like smuggling important information. The hoop skirts and petticoats have many yards of fabric this can be used to hide messages, papers, small packages, and medical supplies attached to the frames of the hoop skirts. They also can use basket or a bag.

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This is my house in Richmond,Virginia
Photo Credit;  The Granger Collection / Universal Images Group