Vanessa Whitesin by Asad Alibhai https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z Women Spies In The Civil War en-us 2018-05-07 15:52:36 UTC 2023-06-10 16:41:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png Claim 7908831 https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/259324311 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.  

]]> 2018-05-09 15:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/259324311 Background about myself. 9807221 https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/259330698 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.]]> 2018-05-09 15:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/259330698 What I did to help the Union 7908831 https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/259335839 "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.]]> 2018-05-09 15:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/259335839 How I was in the war 7908831 https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/259980189 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.]]> 2018-05-11 15:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/259980189 How I was before the war. 7908831 https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/259983737 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. ]]> 2018-05-11 15:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/259983737 bibliography 7908831 https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/260304422  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, ]]> 2018-05-14 01:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/7908831/uvus80jc9a2z/wish/260304422