Rose O'Neill, the daughter of a book dealer, was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1874. Rose Cecil O’Neill was an iconoclast in every sense of the word. In early 1861, she was given control o…
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She used her connections to pass along key military information to the Confederacyat the start of the war.
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(Signed) Knowing she was suspected of spying for the Confederacy, Greenhow feared for her remaining daughters' safety.
She also wrote novels and poetry. ROSE O'NEILL. by Joshua Heston. Virtually any topic for the virtual learner. Which American Civil War general later became president of the United States? Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Rose O’Neal married the prominent physician and historian Robert Greenhow in 1835 and became a leading hostess of Washington, D.C. She was a confidante of several powerful political figures, notably Greenhow was soon recruited as a Confederate spy. Only Little Rose stayed with Greenhow in Washington. After asking to withdraw to her bedroom to change her clothes, Greenhow managed to destroy some coded messages she was carrying before a female officer arrived to strip search her.Hearing of her arrest, Greenhow’s various friends and family members came to the house and were immediately arrested as well.In her memoir, Greenhow stated that the officers got drunk on the rum and brandy in her liquor cabinet and threatened to rape or sexually assault the female prisoners but Pinkerton’s memoir makes no mention of this.As Greenhow’s house arrest wore on, Pinkerton brought several other female spies to her home, earning it the nickname “Fort Greenhow.”Yet, Greenhow was still allowed visitors and continued to smuggle messages to the Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow and her daughter, Rose, imprisoned at the Old Capital Prison in 1862While in prison, Greenhow rebelled by hanging a Confederate flag from a window of the prison and sending secret messages to the Confederates.She described the poor living conditions at the Old Capital Prison in her prison diary:Later that year, in March, the Greenhows were examined by a War Department Commission and in May they were deported to Richmond, Virginia where Greenhow was awarded $2,500 by The following summer, in August of 1863, Greenhow sailed to Europe, with her daughter, as an unofficial representative to gain support for the Confederate cause.While little Rose attended the Sacred Hearts Convent school in Paris, Greenhow met with many British and French officials, including Queen Victoria and Napoleon III (cousin to While in London, Greenhow published her prison diary, After a year in Europe, Greenhow boarded a British blockade-runner, the Condor, bound for America. Rose O’Neal Greenhow was a Confederate spy and wealthy socialite from Washington D.C.. Born into a large slave-holding family in Maryland around 1813, Rose was sent to live with her aunt in Washington D.C. after her father, John O’Neal, was murdered by one of his slaves in 1817. As a young woman in Washington, she befriended many influential politicians, including President James Buchanan and South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, who played a role in shaping her dedication to the South. One of several posters created during the Woman’s Suffrage Movement that featured the Kewpie babies. During the Civil War, Greenhow wrote ciphered (secret code) messages to the Confederates, …
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