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My imprisonment and the first year of abolition rule at Washington Rose O'Neal Greenhow 9781177490023 Books
Here is Rose Greenhow in all her glory. Rose was a prominent society hostess in antebellum Washington, and stayed on after the outbreak of the war to provide intelligence to her beloved South. It also allows her to deliver set downs to all the impudent Yankees who cross her path. These she recounts in great detail, because while a lady never gossips, the Yankees have acted abominably and so it's okay to tattle on them.Rose runs a spy ring and sends coded messages to Richmond and General Beauregard. She gathers a great deal of intelligence and sort of hints that she's responsible for the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run. She gets a letter from General Beauregard conveying his and Confederate President Jeff Davis's thanks for all the valuable intelligence.
Rose disapproves of Washington and the `Black Republican' tyranny. Mary Lincoln is a small dowdy woman who wears artificial flowers in her hair. Rose does not approve. President Lincoln likes to say "By Jingo," when excited. Rose does not approve. At the ambassadorial reception dinner, a servant asks Lincoln what kind of wine he'd like to drink. Lincoln replies, "I don't know. What do you suggest?" This is the final straw. To ask a servant his opinion, well, it just shows you the sort of uncouth Yankee behavior Rose has to put up with.
Fortunately Rose has her position as a great southern lady, and her certainty of the rightness of the Confederate cause to see her through. She stays at her post, charming Union officers, sending coded messages and keeping the Yankee rabble in their place with icy stares and cutting remarks. If only that wretched Scotsman Allan Pinkerton hadn't come snooping around, prying into her affairs as no true gentleman ever would. And she a defenseless female, as she frequently reminds us
Post book spoiler alert. Rose wrote her memoir in England where she was on a diplomatic mission. It sold well making a tidy sum of money. On her return to America, she converted this to gold and had it sewn into her dress, intending to donate it to her beloved Confederacy. Her ship was captured trying to run the Union blockade. Rose attempted to escape in a rowboat but fell overboard. The gold carried her to the bottom.
So this book actually caused the authoress's death. I have mixed feelings. Rose is such a colorful personality that I hate to think of her drowning. But she was so certain that God who loves justice would ensure a Confederate victory, she might have preferred not surviving her country.
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Here is Rose Greenhow in all her glory. Rose was a prominent society hostess in antebellum Washington, and stayed on after the outbreak of the war to provide intelligence to her beloved South. It also allows her to deliver set downs to all the impudent Yankees who cross her path. These she recounts in great detail, because while a lady never gossips, the Yankees have acted abominably and so it's okay to tattle on them.
Rose runs a spy ring and sends coded messages to Richmond and General Beauregard. She gathers a great deal of intelligence and sort of hints that she's responsible for the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run. She gets a letter from General Beauregard conveying his and Confederate President Jeff Davis's thanks for all the valuable intelligence.
Rose disapproves of Washington and the `Black Republican' tyranny. Mary Lincoln is a small dowdy woman who wears artificial flowers in her hair. Rose does not approve. President Lincoln likes to say "By Jingo," when excited. Rose does not approve. At the ambassadorial reception dinner, a servant asks Lincoln what kind of wine he'd like to drink. Lincoln replies, "I don't know. What do you suggest?" This is the final straw. To ask a servant his opinion, well, it just shows you the sort of uncouth Yankee behavior Rose has to put up with.
Fortunately Rose has her position as a great southern lady, and her certainty of the rightness of the Confederate cause to see her through. She stays at her post, charming Union officers, sending coded messages and keeping the Yankee rabble in their place with icy stares and cutting remarks. If only that wretched Scotsman Allan Pinkerton hadn't come snooping around, prying into her affairs as no true gentleman ever would. And she a defenseless female, as she frequently reminds us
Post book spoiler alert. Rose wrote her memoir in England where she was on a diplomatic mission. It sold well making a tidy sum of money. On her return to America, she converted this to gold and had it sewn into her dress, intending to donate it to her beloved Confederacy. Her ship was captured trying to run the Union blockade. Rose attempted to escape in a rowboat but fell overboard. The gold carried her to the bottom.
So this book actually caused the authoress's death. I have mixed feelings. Rose is such a colorful personality that I hate to think of her drowning. But she was so certain that God who loves justice would ensure a Confederate victory, she might have preferred not surviving her country.
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