Abstract
Wall provides an overview of the lives of women, who worked as spies, during the Civil War. The paper specifically covers the stories of four women, Belle Boyd, Elizabeth Van Lew, Loreta Janeta Velazquez, and Sarah Emma Edmonds. Each of these women's experiences during the war were unique to them, but at the same time similar. The paper goes into detail explaining how all of the women were committed to their cause, held a degree of power in the war, and their fates after the war were eerily similar regardless of which side they were on. The evidence used to explain the crucial work these women did and how they were committed, had power, and how their fates were similar is heavily primary documents. The documents include the women’s journals and writings after and during the war and newspaper articles during and after the war. By using these sources evidence is found to support the case that even though the women were on different sides during the conflict they had a lot of similar experiences.