General
Belle Boyd served as a spy for the Confederate Army in the Shenandoah Valley. Isabella Belle Boyd was born in Martinsburg in what is now West Virginia. Like many women she participated in many fund-raising activities at the outbreak of the Civil War to support the Confederacy. She later became a Confederate spy along with at least three other members of her family.
Birth Location:
Martinsburg, VA (now West Virginia)
Birth Date:
5/1844
Death Location:
Kilbourn, Wisconsin
Death Date:
6/11/1900