Belle
Boyd
Belle Boyd
(
1843-
1900),
born in Martinsburg, Virginia, was a
Confederate
spy in the
American
Civil War. She operated from her fathers hotel in
Front
Royal, and provieded valuable information to Generals
Turner
Ashby and
Stonewall
Jackson during the 1862 campaign in the Valley. She was arrested on July 29,
1862, and held for a month in the
Old
Capitol Prison in
Washington.
In 1864 she went to England where she met and married a Union naval officer. She
was awarded the
Southern Cross of Honor. After the war Belle Boyd became
an actress.
