Nancy Hart was a spy for the Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. The Union government offered a reward to whomever caught her, and she was captured in 1862. Nonetheless, she escaped and gathered 200 Confederate soldiers. [Jill, Canon. Civil War Heroines. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerphon Books, 2000. ]
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