The Confederate Belle

Author : Giselle Roberts
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826263585
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confederate Belle written by Giselle Roberts and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While historians have examined the struggles and challenges that confronted the Southern plantation mistress during the American Civil War, until now no one has considered the ways in which the conflict shaped the lives of elite young women, otherwise known as belles. In The Confederate Belle, Giselle Roberts uses diaries, letters, and memoirs to uncover the unique wartime experiences of young ladies in Mississippi and Louisiana. In the plantation culture of the antebellum South, belles enhanced their family's status through their appearance and accomplishments and, later, by marrying well." "During the American Civil War, a new patriotic womanhood superseded the antebellum feminine ideal. It demanded that Confederate women sacrifice everything for their beloved cause, including their men, homes, fine dresses, and social occasions, to ensure the establishment of a new nation and the preservation of elite ideas about race, class, and gender. As menfolk answered the call to arms, southern matrons had to redefine their roles as mistresses and wives. Southern belles faced a different, yet equally daunting task. After being prepared for a delightful "bellehood," young ladies were forced to reassess their traditional rite of passage into womanhood, to compromise their understanding of femininity at a pivotal time in their lives. They found themselves caught between antebellum traditions of honor and of gentility, a binary patriotic feminine ideal and wartime reality."--BOOK JACKET. Book jacket.

Author : Belle Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison written by Belle Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis Adrien Sigaud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle Boyd, Confederate Spy written by Louis Adrien Sigaud and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the historical account of the Virginian rebel agent who carried messages to Confederates about movements of the Union Army. Maria Isabella "Belle" Boyd was born in May 1844 in West Virginia to a wealthy family. During the Civil War, her father was a soldier in the Stonewall Brigade, and at least three other members of her family were convicted of being Confederate spies. In 1861, when Federal troops occupied Martinsburg, Belle shot and killed a drunken Union soldier who was harrassing her and her mother. Soon after, at age 17, she became a "Rebel Spy."

Author : William Galbraith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035692
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lost Heroine of the Confederacy written by William Galbraith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruth Scarborough
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865545557
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle Boyd written by Ruth Scarborough and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age 17 Belle Boyd shot and killed a Union soldier; at age 19 she was in a Union prison, a Confederate spy who got caught. A spunky West Virginia girl full of charm and with a zest for adventure, Belle worked among the highest-ranking officers and lowliest foot soldiers of the Civil War with an indomitable spirit that defied Union authority.As a spy Belle Boyd was amateurish, yet she managed to confuse Union officers and convey useful information to Southern military leaders. Southern newspapers dubbed her Joan of Arc of the South, Siren of the Shenandoah, and Cleopatra of the Secession, while Northern reporters referred to her as camp follower, the most overrated spy, and insincere courtesan. French newspapers, meanwhile, reported the exploits of La Belle Rebelle.Like many historical figures, Belle Boyd may appear in retrospect larger than life, but in this delightful biography her life is portrayed within the limits of its actual dimensions.

Author : Belle Boyd Hardinge
Publisher : Leonaur Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781782828662
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle Boyd written by Belle Boyd Hardinge and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the 'Siren of the Shenandoah' in her own words Isabella Maria Boyd (1844-1900) was one of the most famous and notorious female Confederate spies at work during the American Civil War. Best known as 'Belle', she operated from an hotel owned by her father in the town of Front Royal, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and is credited with providing information valuable to her cause particularly to General 'Stonewall' Jackson in 1862. Belle appeared to have a charmed life for she managed on several occasions to narrowly avoid being shot or incarcerated despite being arrested by the Union on six occasions. She was eventually captured but released when she fell ill. Perhaps Belle Boyd wrote her memoirs 'with advantages' to be fully equal to her reputation, but they nonetheless provide a highly entertaining insight into the life of one of the American Civil War's most enduring characters. Originally published in two volumes, Belle Boyd's entire book is here offered in a single, good value Leonaur edition. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

Author : Richard F. Snow
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612308686
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle Boyd: Confederate Spy written by Richard F. Snow and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belle Boyd began her career as a spy and ended it as an actress. At least one historian concluded that she never lived at all, but the Confederate spy did exist. This essay, by former American Heritage editor Richard F. Snow, explores the life of one of the Civil War's most active secret agents.

Author : Richard Lee Montgomery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942806134
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Belle Boyd written by Richard Lee Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Isabella "Belle" Boyd was one of those women for the South or as we know it - the Confederate States of America. Miss Belle served the Confederacy as a Confederate spy and went to great extremes to deliver information to General Stonewall Jackson. Interestingly, she began spying as a teenager at seventeen.

Author : Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574411462
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen of the Confederacy written by Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a remarkable woman - Lucy Holcombe Pickens - the wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War.

Author : Louis A. Sigaud
Publisher : Sigaud Press
ISBN 13 : 1443728365
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belle Boyd - Confederate Spy written by Louis A. Sigaud and published by Sigaud Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written too on the art of fishing but loch-fishing has been rather looked upon as a second-rate performance, and to dispel this idea is one of the objects for which this present treatise has been written. Far be it from us to say anything against fishing, lawfully practised in any form but many pent up in our large towns will bear us out when me say that, on the whole, a days loch-fishing is the most convenient. One great matter is, that the loch-fisher is depend- ent on nothing but enough wind to curl the water, -and on a large loch it is very seldom that a dead calm prevails all day, -and can make his arrangements for a day, weeks beforehand whereas the stream- fisher is dependent for a good take on the state of the water and however pleasant and easy it may be for one living near the banks of a good trout stream or river, it is quite another matter to arrange for a days river-fishing, if one is looking forward to a holiday at a date some weeks ahead. Providence may favour the expectant angler with a good day, and the water in order but experience has taught most of us that the good days are in the minority, and that, as is the case with our rapid running streams, -such as many of our northern streams are, -the water is either too large or too small, unless, as previously remarked, you live near at hand, and can catch it at its best. A common belief in regard to loch-fishing is, that the tyro and the experienced angler have nearly the same chance in fishing, -the one from the stern and the other from the bow of the same boat. Of all the absurd beliefs as to loch-fishing, this is one of the most absurd. Try it. Give the tyro either end of the boat he likes give him a cast of ally flies he may fancy, or even a cast similar to those which a crack may be using and if he catches one for every three the other has, he may consider himself very lucky. Of course there are lochs where the fish are not abundant, and a beginner may come across as many as an older fisher but we speak of lochs where there are fish to be caught, and where each has a fair chance. Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler. Well, we dont deny that. In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing...