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	Belle Boyd
		Belle conveyed those secrets to Confederate officers via her slave, Eliza Hopewell, who carried the messages in a hollowed-out watchcase.
		That night, Belle rode through Union lines, using false papers to bluff her way past the sentries, and reported the news to Col. When the Confederates advanced on Front Royal on May 23, Belle ran to greet General Stonewall Jackson's men.
		Boyd was arrested on July 29, 1862, and held for a month in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington before being released.
	encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/2543/Belle-Boyd.html (401 words)

	Belle Boyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maria Isabella Boyd (May 4, 1844 – June 11, 1900), best known as Belle Boyd, born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War.
		Eldest child of Benjamin Reed and Mary Rebecca (Glenn) Boyd, she operated from her father's hotel in Front Royal, and provided valuable information to Generals Turner Ashby and Stonewall Jackson during the 1862 Valley Campaign.
		That night, Belle rode through Union, using false papers to bluff her way past the sentries, and reported the news to Colonel Turner Ashby, who was scouting for the Confederates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belle_Boyd (494 words)

	Belle Boyd (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Belle Boyd was born in Martinsburg which is now a part of West Virginia.
		Belle Boyd was in a Union prism for her espionage activities before the war ended.
		Belle was betrayed by her lover and was arrested on July 29, 1862.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /98_99/CW/spies/boyd.htm (224 words)

	CAPTAIN BELLE BOYD SPIES, RAIDERS & PARTISANS
		Boyd quickly seduced and fell in love with Union Captain Samuel Hardinge, who was placed in command of the blockade runner to take it to the North.
		Hardinge allowed Boyd and the Confederate captain of the blockade runner to escape to Canada and then to England, and for these actions he was later court martialed and discharged from the navy.
		General Stonewall Jackson made Belle Boyd an honorary member of his staff with the rank of captain for the intelligence she provided in the capture of Front Royal, Virginia.
	members.tripod.com /~beag27/bboyd.html (366 words)

	Civil War Spies -- Who they were and what they did
		Belle Boyd, born in Matinsburg, Virginia, attended Mount Washington Female College in Batltimore.
		Boyd took it upon herself to travel through the lines to General "Stonewall" Jackson and tell him about the Union's plan to destroy the bridges and withdraw.
		Boyd continued to spy for the Confederates and she became a couier and a scout for the J.S. Mosby's guerrillas.
	www.freewebs.com /j2sawyer/belleboyd.htm (415 words)

	Belle Boyd - Siren of the Shenandoah
		At 22 she was widowed, a single mother of one, broke and banished from her homeland.
		Her name was Belle Boyd and before her life ended suddenly at the age of 57, her life's journey had spanned the breadth of the country, across the sea, only to come to her final rest in the land of her adversaries.
		As trite as it may seem to say so, she was a legend in her own time.
	belleboydinfo.tripod.com (195 words)

	Belle Boyd Chapter No. 2620
		Belle was known to have been a headstrong girl who rode her pony into the house after her father told her she was too young to attend a dinner party he planned for that evening.
		Belle was quite inventive in her undercover exploits and even organized a spy ring using her young girl friends to secure information for her.
		Belle was visiting her aunt in Front Royal during the summer of 1862 when Union officers seized her aunt's boarding house to use as a meeting place.
	www.rootsweb.ancestry.com /~laudc/boyd.htm (742 words)

	Isabelle (Belle) Boyd (1844-1900)
		Isabelle (Belle) Boyd (1844-1900), actress and Confederate spy, was born on May 9, 1844, in Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), to Benjamin Reed and Mary Rebecca (Glenn) Boyd, a prominent slaveholding family in the Shenandoah Valley.
		Boyd was detained on several occasions, and on July 29 she was placed in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington.
		Boyd was banished to Canada, but she subsequently reached England, where, in August of the same year, she married Hardinge, the Union naval ensign assigned to guard her after her capture, who had followed her to London.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/boyd.html (755 words)

	Civil War Explorer > Belle Boyd (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On July 4, Belle Boyd shot and killed a drunken Union soldier who, as she wrote in her post-war memoirs, “addressed my mother and myself in language as offensive as it is possible to conceive.
		Boyd was arrested six or seven times, but managed to avoid incarceration until July 29, 1862, when she was finally imprisoned in Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C. She was released after a month as part of a prisoner exchange, but was arrested again in July 1863.
		Boyd remained in England for two years writing her memoirs, Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, and achieving success on the stage.
	www.civilwar.org /cwe/redirect.asp?Page_ID=121 (586 words)

	The Moonlit Road - Belle Boyd - Cultural Background
		Belle Boyd (1844-1900), also known as "Le Belle Rebelle," was one of the most beloved Confederate spies during the Civil War.
		Belle was born in 1844 in Martinsburg, Virginia (now part of West Virginia) to Benjamin Reed Boyd, a prominent store and tobacco plantation owner, and Mary Rebecca Boyd.
		Union troops captured Belle again and imprisoned her in the Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C. She was later released and headed south to Wilmington, N.C., where she boarded the Confederate ship "Greyhound" to deliver military dispatches to England.
	www.themoonlitroad.com /archives/belleboyd/belleboyd_cbg001.html (469 words)

	Belle Boyd: Confederate Spy
		Belle was left to tend to her sister Mary Jane,age 10,her brother Bill,age 4, her mother and grandmother.She went to Mount Washington Female College of Baltimore, from age 12 to age 16.
		Belle was trapped on a blockade-runner captured by a Federal ship, but so charmed a young ensign on the enemy vessel that he proposed.
		Belle embroiled him in Confederate espionage, and when he was discovered and dismissed from the United States Navy she sailed to England.
	www.angelfire.com /ga3/southernrebels/belle.html (448 words)

	Boyd
		Belle was born May 9, 1843, in the Shenandoah Valley town of Martinsburg, Virginia, which later became West Virginia.She was a precocious child that was rarely disciplined.
		Eventually, Belle would spend time in prison more than once for her gutsy exploits in espionage.On one occasion a drunken Yankee soldier made the unfortunate mistake of climbing on Belle’s roof to raise a Union flag.
		An investigation followed and Belle, amid tears and fluttering eyelashes, was declared justified in her act.
	www.geocities.com /sre_33/Boyd.html (423 words)

	Belle Boyd, epilogue: Confederate Spy: Siren of the Shenandoah: Civil War History
		Belle Boyd had spent the better part of twenty years reliving, recounting and embellishing the tales of her teener adventures as a Confederate spy in the war between the states.
		When she spoke of her capture at the hands of a handsome naval officer and her eventual romantic involvement with the same man, those who heard were awed by the nerve and daring of this dramatic speaker.
		Belle Boyd collapsed and died in Wisconsins Dells on June 11, 1900.
	www.belleboydinfo.com /epilogue.htm (552 words)

	VanAnn as Belle Boyd
		Belle was a courier for Generals Beauregard and Stonewall Jackson in which she used her excellent horsemanship and knowledge of the Shenandoah Valley in her espionage adventures.
		Belle was imprisoned twice in Capital Prison in Washington D.C. and was arrested a total of six times before she fled to England where she married one of her former guards.
		Belle Boyd shares her lively tale in a drama with American songs from the civil war era.
	www.vanann.com /pages/VA_BB.html (174 words)

	Belle Boyd
		General Stonewall Jackson made Belle Boyd an honorary member of his staff with the rank of captain for the intelligence she provided in the capture of Front Royal, Virginia.
		Boyd quickly seduced and fell in love with Union Captain Samuel Hardings, who was placed in command of the blockade runner to take it to the North.
		Hardings allowed Boyd and the Confederate captain of the blockade runner to escape to Canada and then to England, and for these actions he was later court-martialed and kicked out of the navy.
	members.cox.net /quarter_3/Civil_War_Women/Belle_Boyd.htm (352 words)

	Belle Boyd, Cleopatra Of The Secession
		To her English admirers Belle described an idyllic childhood in a "pretty two-storied house," its walls "hidden by roses and honeysuckle." Idyllic it may have been, for a relative recalled that Belle had been a reckless tomboy who climbed trees, raced through the woods on a nettlesome mount, and dominated brothers, sisters, and cousins.
		Belle promptly went to the hospitals to help the wounded, and she was there when a triumphant Union officer entered.
		Belle knew that the less important packet in her basket would quickly be found, so she promptly passed it to the colonel.
	www.civilwarhome.com /belleboyd.htm (7926 words)

	Belle Boyd Suite\|Stonewall Jackson Inn\|Harrisonburg VA
		Belle Boyd room is located on the first floor, next to the kitchen and on the south side of the Stonewall Jackson Inn with a beautiful view of the back yard and the roses.
		Belle Boyd is set with two Full beds, in-room private bath with a shower, cable TV and phone for local calls.
		That night, Belle rode through Union, using false papers to bluff her way past the sentries, and reported the news to Colonel Turner Ashby, who was scouting for the Confederates.
	www.stonewalljacksoninn.com /belle_boyd_room.htm (449 words)

	Captain Belle Boyd
		The year before, Boyd had shot and killed a drunken Union soldier who was trying to raise the Stars and Stripes over her house in what was then Martinsburg, western Virginia.
		Dubbed "La Belle Rebelle" by a French war correspondent, Boyd continued to spy for the Confederacy and also served as a courier and scout for the Confederacy and also served as a courier and scout for Col. John S. Mosby's guerillas.
		Boyd was arrested again in June 1863 and was not released until December.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /SpiesRaidersAndPartisans/captainbelleboyd.html (315 words)

	Belle Boyd
		Boyd, the daughter of a successful merchant, was born in 1844 in a part of the Shenandoah Valley later incorporated into West Virginia.
		Boyd operated as a Confederate spy, using her father’s hotel in Front Royal as a cover.
		In England, she published her memoirs, Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, and began a career as an actress and, later, a lecturer.
	www.knowsouthernhistory.net /Biographies/Belle_Boyd (529 words)

	Boyd
		Maria Isabella (Belle) Boyd of Bunker Hill in Berkeley County spent most of her childhood in Martinsburg.
		She was acquitted on self-defense and used her charm to gain the confidence of federal troops.
		Boyd continued to hone her spy skills of disguise, code, observation, and passing messages to Confederate officers.
	www.wvhumanities.org /boyd.htm (104 words)

	History's Women An Online Magazine
		Belle Boyd was, depending on whose side you were on, either a spy or a patriot.
		Weary of her refusal to obey the prior warnings about her activities, Belle was escorted to the Old Capitol Prison (formerly a brick boarding house) in Washington D.C. So it was, that at the tender age of 19, that Belle was questioned and then asked to take the Oath of Allegiance.
		Belle’s desire and determination to serve her cause with loyalty and with little regard to personal reward or damage to her reputation held her in good stead.
	www.historyswomen.com /moregreatwomen/belleboyd.htm (821 words)

	CAPTAIN BELLE BOYD SPIES, RAIDERS & PARTISANS
		When Boyd returned to the Confederacy, her blockade runner was captured by a Union warship.
		Boyd quickly seduced and fell in love with Union Captain Samuel Hardinge, who was placed in command of the blockade runner to take it to the North.
		Hardinge allowed Boyd and the Confederate captain of the blockade runner to escape to Canada and then to England, and for these actions he was later court martialed and discharged from the navy.
	www.wtv-zone.com /civilwar/bboyd.html (366 words)

	AllRefer.com - Belle Boyd (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Belle Boyd 1844–1900, Confederate spy in the Civil War, b.
		After his death she began a career on the English stage (1866) and on her subsequent return to the United States toured widely, especially in the Middle West, giving dramatic talks about herself and sundry episodes of the Civil War.
		She wrote Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison (1865).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Boyd-Bel.html (233 words)

	Belle Boyd
		Boyd was tried and acquitted after her defence lawyer argued that it was a case of justifiable homicide.
		Boyd was a strong supporter of the Confederate Army and during the early stages of the American Civil War took details of enemy troop movements to Thomas Stonewall Jackson.
		Hardinge was court-martialed and discharged from the navy.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWboyd.htm (328 words)

	Virginia's Ghostly Messenger: Belle Boyd
		Belle pulled a pistol out of her bodice and shot the man. Though the man died, the Union officers were impressed with the sixteen year-old’s courage.
		Belle was in and out of prison until December of 1863, when she was released for the final time.
		Belle returned to America before the end of the war, but the vessel she was riding on was captured.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/civil_war_ghosts/68975 (617 words)

	Confederate Spy-Belle Boyd
		Born as Maria Isabella Boyd, she became best known as Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy in the Civil War.
		She was the oldest child of Benjamin Reed and Mary Rebecca (Glenn) Boyd.
		Boyd went on to a theatrical career in England and America.
	www.mycivilwar.com /leaders/boyd_belle.htm (645 words)

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