. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . NANCY HARTTHE CONFEDERATE GUIDE AND SPY The women of the mountain districts of Virginia were as ready to do scout and spy work for the Con-federate leaders as were their men-folk. Famous among these fearless girls who knew every inch of theregions in which they lived was Nancy Hart. So valuable was her work as a guide, so cleverly and oftenhad she led Jacksons cavalry upon the Federal outposts in West Virginia, that the Northern Govern-ment offered a large r
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . NANCY HARTTHE CONFEDERATE GUIDE AND SPY The women of the mountain districts of Virginia were as ready to do scout and spy work for the Con-federate leaders as were their men-folk. Famous among these fearless girls who knew every inch of theregions in which they lived was Nancy Hart. So valuable was her work as a guide, so cleverly and oftenhad she led Jacksons cavalry upon the Federal outposts in West Virginia, that the Northern Govern-ment offered a large reward for her capture. Lieutenant-Colonel Starr of the Ninth West Virginiafinally caught her at Summerville in July. 1862. While in a temporary prison, she faced the camera forthe first time in her life, displaying more alarm in front of the innocent contrivance than if it had been abody of Federal soldiery. She posed for an itinerant photographer, and her captors placed the hatdecorated with a military feather upon her head. Nancy managed to get hold of her guards musket,shot him dead, and escaped on Colonel Starrs horse to the ne
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