Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the ...

FOX Business' Gerri Willis joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss Gen Z's quarter-life crisis and preview her new book, 'Lincoln's ...

Spies, and Saboteurs” (2004). In “The Unvanquished,” he turns to a shadowy side of the Civil War: irregulars who wore enemy uniforms, lied their way through sentry lines, and accepted that ...

The National Civil ... served as spies for both the Union and the Confederacy. Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union supporter in Virginia, led one of the most successful spy rings of the war.

During the American Civil War, a group of Union soldiers commandeered ... If captured, the Union volunteers would most likely be executed as spies since they were wearing civilian clothes.

By Javier C. Hernández In a theater at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan one recent afternoon, a rehearsal for the coming opera “Intelligence,” about Civil War-era spies, was about to begin.

BALTIMORE -- From the Civil War to World War II and beyond, there's a long line of lady spies who came from Maryland, women who risked their lives for their country. Their stories are remarkable ...

Amidst the chaos of 1860s warfare, one Confederate unit marched into battle dressed like Revolutionary War ghosts. This was no accident. ‘I am Ashamed’: West Point Professor Resigns in ...

During the Civil War, Bright added, “there were three [Union] spies associated with the cave.” “It’s common to have droughts throughout history. During the Civil War there was a serious ...

But what many people don't realize is that modern submarines have their origins in designs dating from the earliest years of the American Civil War ... practical weapons of war in an effort ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Put Tim Wendel's "Rebel Falls" on the shelf next to "The Falls," by Joyce Carol Oates, and "The Day the Falls Stood Still," by Cathy Marie Buchanan. They are great Niagara ...