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My name is  Vanessa Whitesin, I hated slavery my whole life, because my dad owned a plantation, and hated how he was treating the slaves, so I became a spy  to help out the union, and abolish slavery for one and for all.

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In the war I disguised myself as a man to get in the confederate base camps to get information about what they were planning so I could tell the Union about their plans.

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Before the war I was in a plantation who was owned by my dad. My husband, and me were living together happily, but suddenly he had to help the union  to win the war. He went to serve in the war, and he died by the confederacy. My dad owned slaves and I hated that so I made a decision to disguise my self as a man to avenge his death.

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"I used Invisible ink to write  information between lines of ordinary letters" Because of this the Union was getting  a lot of information about the confederacy and that is why we were one step ahead of them

" I created a cipher, or code to safely send messages to the union while the Confederate didn't  Figure it out." Because of this The Confederacy didn't know what I was telling you guys so that is how we used to be a step ahead again.

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1-  Harper,Judith "spies in pettie coats" Cobblestone, vol 36 no. 9 Nov- Dec 2015, pg 32-35.
2- BlashFeild, Jean, Women at the front, New York, Franklin Watts 1997.
Citations For Pictures
1-  “Female Soldiers in the Civil War.” American Battlefield Trust, 15 Mar. 2018,
2-“Home.” American Battlefield Trust,

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Before the civil war I was a normal house wife , but then my husband got murdered by the confederacy, so I wanted avenge his death by spying on the confederacy and to help out the union. Before the war I was a regular person soft, sensitive , and had never seen anything bad happen, but after the civil war I was cold as ice, and had seen many awful things in my life.