Mary Bowser: A Brave Black Spy in the Confederate White House

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Mary Bowser: A Brave Black Spy in the Confederate White House
Smart, cunning and fearless, Mary Bowser outsmarted Jefferson Davis and his wife for years and delivered secrets to the Union army.

By: Steven J. Niven
Posted: March 19 2015 3:00 AM

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White House of the Confederacy in 1865

Matthew Brady/Library of Congress


Editor’s note: For Women’s History Month, The Root is spotlighting less famous figures from the African American National Biography, whose stories exemplify the extraordinary, and often unsung, accomplishments of African-American women from our past.

In modern wars, including the Civil War, women have taken on key assignments at the heart of the action as soldiers or nurses or performed supportive roles. Women contributed important work to the intelligence services of the Union as well as the Confederacy: Perhaps the most remarkable service rendered was that of Harriet Tubman, now recognized as having played a central role in gathering intelligence and planning the liberation of more than 700 slaves in the Union Army’s dramatic 1863 raid on the Confederate redoubt at the Combahee River in South Carolina.

More:
http://www.theroot.com/articles/his...he_confederate_white_house.html?wpisrc=burger
 
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