Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

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“Gone With the Wind” — the story of Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara and her love life set against the backdrop of the Civil War and Reconstruction — remains one of the highest-grossing ...

Could a Civil War-era depot, only the fourth known ... Thomas Bibb named his stately 1826 home Belle Manor, but thanks to the southern drawl, it was soon called Belle Mina, as was the ...

of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel charts irascible Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) as she struggles through the Civil War, witnesses the fall of the South and its gradual ...

When the Civil War began, she visited Union soldiers at the Richmond prison, bringing them food and supplies, and helping some escape. In the Confederacy, she led an underground Unionist movement ...

And though the fighting was concentrated in areas around the border between Southern slave states and free Northern states, Civil War battles spread across a total of 23 states and territories ...

shows a document signed by President Lincoln in April 1861 ordering the blockade of southern United States ports after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter started the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln ...