Virtual Trivia

Question 10: The Enemy Within

April 10, 2021

Rose Greenhow and her daughter at Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. Photograph taken by Mathew Brady. From the Library of Congress

Which female Confederate sympathizer-turned-spy did President Jefferson Davis credit with his success at the first Battle of Bull Run?

  1. Belle Boyde
  2. Elizabeth Van Law
  3. Rose Greenhow
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  4. Pauline Cushman

Rose ascended the ranks of Washington society as the wife of a wealthy doctor. She used her social contacts to obtain information to pass on to the South. She was arrested and, along with her daughter Rose, incarcerated in Capitol Prison.

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