Notable Women
This escaped slave not only delved into dangerous territory to free slaves, but also spied on the Confederacy.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Somtimes women would live on this territory to send information back to their side.
What is Enemy Territory?
This commonly known cipher consisting of dots and lines is named after Samuel Morse.
What is Morse Code?
Clara Barton risked her life distributing supplies to soldiers. This kept the which side strong
What is the Union?
What is Transvestism?
This women spy helped the Confederacy win the First Battle of Manassas by hiding a message in her hair.
Who is Rose O’Neal Greenhow?
This method of hiding messages in the throat of this animal was used to communicate with allies.
What is a Chicken‘s throat?
This three-part code was used by the union to send telegrams.
What is the Union Code?
These women were easily trusted and not viewed threatening by soldiers.
Who is Women Spies?
These women would hide goods like medicine, ammo, weapons, etc. underneath this item of clothing.
What are Hoop Skirts?
This Union spy took care of captive soldiers in return for information. She asked what they saw and heard on their way to the prison.
Who is Elizabeth Van Lew?
This type of sewing was used to send messages to allies.
What is Embroidery?
The two sides used codes because of this, a way to intercept and read telegrams.
What is wiretapping?
This woman leaked Union plans to Confederate generals, allowing them to win the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Rose O’Neal Greenhow?
To pass as a man, these people cut their hair, and dressed of the opposite gender.
Who are women soldiers?
Emma Edmonds once disguised herself as a slave named this, coloring her skin using silver nitrate.
What is Cush?
Spies hid messages in the handles of this.
What is Butter Knives?
This wheel cipher was used by the Confederacy to send coded messages.
What is the Polyalphabetic Cipher Disc?
By the end of the war, the definition of this had expanded greatly.
What is “true womanhood”?
This woman became famous for her disguises, disguising herself as anything from a black man to an Irish woman.
Who is Sarah Edmonds?
This 17 year old Confederate spy was given the nick name “Cleopatra of Secession.” She defied women’s conventional roles by becoming a messenger for Confederate Generals Jackson and Pierre Beauregard.
Who was Belle Boyd?
Spies wrote with invisible ink that turned black in this liquid.
What is Milk?
This method of coding was a 2 part method that included replacing important words with code names.
What is the Stager Cipher?
Rose O’Neal Greenhow ran a large spy ring in this city, helping the Confederacy win the 1st Battle of Manassas.
Where is Washington D.C.?
This woman disguised herself as a man and went to fight for the Union. She then masqueraded as a man for the next fifty years.
Who is Albert Cashier?