Virginia+Bethel+Moon

=Virginia Bethel Moon=

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"Ginnie" Moon was born in Ohio with her four other sisters and her father, Edward Harris Moon. When Ginnie was eighteen, she moved down with her mother in Memphis, Tennessee and began her short-lived career of being an espionage agent. On one of her missions for the delivery of confederate papers, she was said to have gone to Canada, disguised herself as an English Woman, and rode in a carriage with Abe Lincoln! Ginnie Moon was a very respectable and reliable spy; once on a mission, she swallowed a message meant for her 'boss' [|General Nathan Bedford Forrest], just so it wouldn't fall into the hands of the Union. After many years of being caught and arrested, she eventually became a [|philanthropist] in Memphis.



Sources: TN Encyclopedia, [|http://tenesseeencyclopedia.net] Wikipedia,[| http://wikipedia.org]


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