Civil War "spy chiefs" -- Intelligence courier systems -- Secret organizations: Northern sympathizers in the South ; Southern sympathizers in the north -- Technology assist in Civil War spying -- ...

The former slave known for leading more than 300 people—including her elderly parents—to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad was also a Union spy. Born in Maryland around 1820, Tubman ...

James Morgan Utz, who grew up on a farm in present-day Hazelwood, was hanged for being a Confederate spy on Dec. 26, 1864, at the old St. Louis County Jail, Chestnut and Sixth streets. Utz was 23 ...

Home at 337 E. Hamburg Street in Baltimore is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It includes a late eighteenth-century flounder house. The Federal Hill home was the former Civil War ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- One of the most important African American leaders of the late 1800s was born in North Carolina, but his accomplishments and influence vanished from history for 100 years. Abraham ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The story of David O. Dodd is relatively unknown outside of Arkansas, but the teenage spy who chose to hang rather than betray the Confederate cause is a folk hero to many in ...

There were spies at nearly every corner during the two world wars. The most famous in World War I was Mata Hari (real name Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), a German spy operating among the Dutch people, ...