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Elizabeth van Lew

A well-bred Southerner who ran a spy ring for the Union

Her tombstone reads: "She risked everything that is dear to man - friends, fortune,
comfort, health, life itself, all for the one absorbing desire of her heart -
that slavery might be abolished and the Union preserved."


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