Rose+O'neal-Seohyun

Rose O' Neal Greenhow

The person I chose for the 'I am...' project is Rose O' Neal Greenhow. When I was looking for a person to research about, I noticed her as an interesting character because she was a confederate spy during the Civil War; and she was a female who had done a major job for the Confederates. Before starting to work on the project, I knew about her background such as family, the most well-known job she had done during the Civil War, and some other information because I had researched about her when looking for a famous woman during the Civil War. Rose O' Neal Greenhow was born in 1815 in Port Tobacco, Maryland, in a wealthy slave holding family. When one of her slaves at home killed her father when she was young, she became pro-slavery and went against abolition of slavery.In the first battle of Bull Run, she helped the confederates' victory by getting the Union's orders. When she went to Richmond after released from Old Capitol Prison, she got a mission from Jefferson Davis to convince the leaders in Europe to help the confederacy, and published a book in England. Some questions that came to my mid were 'How did Greenhow get the information about the Union's orders before the first battle of Bull Run?', 'How did Greenhow become a confederate spy, and get imprisoned?', and 'How did her book affect the Unions and the Confederates?' **My primary historical question is... "What events led Greenhow to become a spy, and to be imprisoned?"

Primary Sources Document [|My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington] [|poem by Greenhow]

Audio [|Civil War Music]

Visual [|Rose O' Neal Greenhow] [|Greenhow with her daughter] [|Death]

Quotes "I am a Southern woman, born with revolutionary blood in my veins..." 

Secondary Sources [|womenhistory] [|civilwarhome] [|americancivilwar] [|onealwebsite.com] **