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Karen Abbott's book highlighting four strong women who helped alter the course of the Civil War is mesmerizing. She interweaves the lives of the four throughout the book, detailing the wild adventures of Confederate courier Belle Boyd; the shocking transformation of Emma Edmonson into Union soldier Franklin Thompson and back again; the sexual exploits of Confederate spy Rose Greenhow and the extensive spy network devised by Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union loyalist who lived in the middle of Richmond, the Confederate capital, and who was able to insert a spy into the Confederate White House. This is history at its best - a living history that reads like a novel yet is extensively researched. I highly recommend it.