European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Stripes daily Magazine Confederate cloak and tresses agent by Merton t. Akers up Sloff soon alter in Light i Oil. I. Isim. Confederate Soldier walking us Iii a Beach Oil Cape Lear Kim i Al. Fish or ill North Carolina i inc upon the Henily of a ionian. Finding i Luil Iacre was nut fre Tjui Nelly were washed i tin these benches. Fur this area Helenw Wil Mington n.u., was the scene of Many wrecks of blockade runners which had dashed in and out of this last big open port of Thi confederacy und had run afoul of Federal warships. But bodies of women on the Beach were uncommon this Well dressed one in particular with a reticule full of eng Lish Gold 12.000 by i eth Ial Anil Linnzi Siuru than she can in the a is she demanded that she ire Mii ashore can lain William in Wati of the blockade run Ner. Condor. Ined l i Lull. Imm nut of i in tit escape. Ital she nisiwi., Ili. My by he gave in. A lni.,1 a s is Lull ii Ili l -.,. I., i. Do. Ii i her i a Lull Why lie . no la t in n Liti Simiu d Lii. Miss. 1 Iri Ell Liow lived a so Lii Willifor tin four years since Tinnil War widow of Stoberl circe now. A mini scholar and Lalu she and her four daughters were living on 10th Street in Washington when secession tit Kan. She moved in the upper crust of capital society entertained extensively and handsomely. She often was seen it the White House us u guest of president Liuch nun. Top figures of inv Ernie no und diplomacy lusted her hos was a Rcd hot and Mude no Effort to keep her views to her self bul still enjoyed the Friendship of Many . Greenhow was described by his. Lorian Carl Sandburg As a tall unmet with slumber us eyes. Slug holy horse faced having a Grunt Beauty education and manners and resourceful she was about 44 at the capt Thomas Jordan re signed from the . Army to join the Confederate cause he gave mrs. a code to use in sending messages became u colonel in the Confederate army und adjutant for Jen p. I. at Manassas va., in the summer of july 10, 1881. Beauregard re ported later he received the first Mes Sage from mrs. Rec Shuw. It came to him in the Best spy Story Duvall u Washington girl do a lured it. Disguised As a farm woman she had crossed hip Potomac in a mar Ket cart on Chain Bridge. At the Home of friends in Virginia she changed into thursday october 1, 1964 darkly handsome in. Role Greenhow town with or Daugh lir after her confinement in old Capitol prion. Riding Flotlin Iii and role in to the con federate lines at Fairfax court House a. There Gen m. L. Hon Ham receive her. She let Down her Long hair and look out of ii a message sewn in Blacksill. The message suld that the Federal array would Advance South by the Way of Fairfax . And Centreville an that Beau Efurd might expect the at tack about the Middle of by the Middle of july the Federal army was barely under Way on its in Vasion of Virginia. On the morning of july it a former government clerk named to Mcllan a Iniard it mrs. Ori i now i Home me showed her a two word message Froni Jordan in their code. Trust u said then she a Ruth a nine word message in the same cud and gave it to Yonel Ian. Order issued or Mcdowell to March on menu seas her Mes Sage said. I iut she said she had seen the actual order for Brig Gen i win Mcdowell to March by relays of couriers the message was delivered to Beauregard that night lie called for the army of Gen Joseph in the Shenandoah Valley to join him and pulled in his the Federal army reached Man Assas Beauregard was ready and i reunion forces were Defeated in the first Battle of Manassas Bull Hun Buur curd credited mrs. Greenhow with a part in winning the Battle. s Freedom in Washington did not last Long after that. Allan Inker Ion the detective was on her Trail. Onk night the next month i shoeless m the rain on the shoulders of one of his men arid jeered into a window of mrs. Rec now s Home. He rinsed the Sash and turned a Slat inthe venetian Blind. Ali saw mrs. Ireen How and a Young Federal Captain Wili their Heads Urr a Tafi. I Ink Carton. Still shoeless followed Theca pain when he i Al the House but my Iii lie was arrested by the Potosi gun round taken before the flu or of the Ila who turned out to w the Young Capi Uthe had followed Liim the tire Elihw Ihmie. The re Elerine i evil the night a i Ell bul got nut Ali. Ii a Day and raided mrs. Treen How s Home and confine her to the lop floor lie found no incriminating papers although mrs. Green Howrad a Lanty of them including Jordan s code. The stars and stripes mrs. Rec now was searched by woman detective except for her Stock Ings. That gave her an idea she wrote much later. She put her papers in the so Ockless of a woman Friend who walked past the guards without detection scene Good enough for a modern spy movie. Several months later mrs. Oreen Hirwas put into old Capitol prison almost an old Home for her because her aunt once had operated it As a boarding she has sent to Richmond where pres Lent Jefferson Davis visited Herand Krulc in his wife that she has Tho air of one whose nerves Are shaken by mental Rene flier she or not. H00 and the went to Guroo on a blockade she a i received by naj Mileon 111 01 a e and by a teen Victoria anther memoirs. My imprisonment or the first year of abolition hide at Washin with published. It was the royalties from that books High she carried in the reticule when she was enough they wrapped the spy in a Confederate Flag and buried her on ocl. I 1801. Pago 11
