![]() ![]() Lastly Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union spy, was always vigilant in her duties. Rose was very adept in coding her messages in different patterns and stealth. ![]() The author used real characters such as the detective Allan Pinkerton, who was the head of the newly formed Secret Service and ordered to watch Rose and her contacts and visitors. ![]() She shamelessly used her young daughter as a pawn in her schemes and they were imprisoned together at the Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C. Rose O’Neal Greenhow used her “almost irresistible seductive powers” to procure information for the Confederacy and was credited by Jefferson Davis, the confederate president, with ensuring the South’s victory at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. A fiction account of Emma was written by Ann Rinaldi titled, “Girl in Blue." ![]()
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