Belle Boyd Secret Agent Author:Jeannette C. Nolan When the Civil War began, no one could have seemed less likely to play a part in it than Belle Boyd. Only 17, she was a model of decorum, the very ideal of Southern womanhood. Belle passionately loved the South and when her home in Virginia fell to the Union troops, her career as a secret agent began. Soon she was supplying the S outherners unde... more »r Stonewall Jackson with vital information. With nerves of steel an a sharp wit, she was easily the match of her adversaries and in one case, far more than a match when a former Union captor followed her on a mission to England and married her. Known as the "Southern Joan of Arc," her story is a true spy thriller in one of the most dramatic periods in American history.« less