Great spies.Part 1-Isabella Maria Boyd.

Belly used her feminine charms to work during the American Civil war.Born in Virginia,she received a good education and became an actress, gaining access to higher society.
Living at the beginning of the war in his hometown of Martinsberg,was in the occupied territory,and when the house broke a group of drunken soldiers northerners,shot one of the attackers.The command of the northerners recognized her right to self-defense,and one of the officers,falling in love,told her some important secrets.Later, when Isabella settled with her aunt in the Front Piano, in the house, where the headquarters of General shields.The information she gave to the southerners influenced the results of two major battles that took place in the vicinity of the city.
Three months later, Boyd was arrested, but a month later she and Dr. spies were exchanged for agents of the Federalists.Two years later,the ship she was carrying the Confederate mail was intercepted by the Northmen,but officer Hardinge helped her escape to England,and after the war became her husband.

After the death Hardinge in an American prison even Boyle was married twice.Live and of England,she quite often came in the US, speaking with lectures and narratives of Civil war.