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Boyd, Belle

Boyd, Belle

(1843–1900) Confederate spy; born in Martinsburg, Va. She brought information about Federal troops to Confederate commands, especially to General “Stonewall” Jackson. She was arrested twice (1862, 1863) and was captured on her way to England carrying letters from Jefferson Davis. Capitalizing on her notoriety, she appeared on the London stage (1866) and the New York stage (1868), then took to the lecture circuit after 1886.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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(34) The song also recalls Belle Boyd's party-piece, 'Maryland, My Maryland, reproduced in the introduction to the New York edition of Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, which contains the similar lines 'For life and death, for woe and weal,/Thy peerless chivalry reveal,/And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel,/Maryland, My Maryland!, Boyd, Belle Boyd, pp.
Foreign constellations in a national drama: becoming American in Boucicault's Belle Lamar
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