What makes this aside on prices especially interesting now is the rough equivalence between the Confederate dollar in 1864 and the US dollar in 2012 at least for the purpose of buying beef on the hoof. Elizabeth Van Lew, a well-to-do resident of Richmond, Virginia, recruited and operated an extensive network of spies who. Compelled to atone for the sins of her slaveholding father, Union loyalist Sophie Kent risks everything to help end the war from within the Confederate capital and abolish slavery forever. Map of Civil War Richmond- Map from A Yankee Spy in Richmond by David D. Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy. 13, Richmond Civil War Centennial Commission. Spy of Richmond Jocelyn Green 4.42 496 ratings122 reviews Trust None. A Yankee Spy in Richmond: The Civil War Diary of 'Crazy Bet' Van Lew. It brought $1,500 in Confederate money only about $75 in US currency." A footnote to this statement references a "Confederate Inflation Chart", Official publication No. An ever increasing inflation was driving up the cost of everything and eventually they had to sell their cow. Translations in context of 'UNION SPY' in english-spanish. "Another problem for Elizabeth and her mother was finding money to pay for their spy efforts. The editor's introduction contains this interesting comment (p 17): I suppose even that is worth putting in print, but it's definitely a reference for specialists. Will she follow her convictions and risk everythingRichmond, Virginia, 1863.
So much of Lew's papers were destroyed at war's end, in order to eliminate incriminating evidence, that what remains is literally small fragments of her wartime journals. Though her neighbors with Confederate sympathies clearly despised her, and shunned her, they did not kill her or even drive her out of the community. She believed the institution of human bondage was absolutely repugnant and could not tolerate it any longer. Van Lew was an outspoken opponent of slavery, but did not consider herself an abolitionist. The Southern culture's toleration for eccentricity seems the only plausible explanation for the survival of this character not only during the war, but until September of 1900. Grant’s Richmond Spy, Elizabeth Van Lew, was the Union’s Espionage Queen during the Civil War.
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