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Belle Boyd began her career as a Confederate spy when she eavesdropped on the conversation between Union General James Shields and his staff in May 1862. She passed on what she learned to Confederate officers.
American Civil War spies
Belle Boyd
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After the war and several failed marriages, Belle Boyd made a career out of traveling the country, giving talks on her life as a Civil War spy.