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By the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Big thank you mr. Carmichael. I am also of says i am a director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure this afternoon to introduce Elizabeth Van lew who is the associate director for civil war history. Awesome williams professor of American History at the university of virginia. Thankfully, she is not a hockey buff. At least i do not believe she is. Oh gosh, she said go caps. What has happened to American Sports . I do not know. I never thought in a civil war conference people would be dying about hockey, but such is life. Elizabeth is a published scholar. We need to be counted, white women. Published by the university of the North Carolina press 1998. ....
Elizabeth Bowser: Mary Van Lew, An African-American Slave 161 Words1 Page Elizabeth Bowser an African American slave. later in her life with the help of Mary Van Lew became a spy for the Union army. Born as Mary Elizabeth Richards sometime around the year 1839, she was a slave of John Van Lew of Virginia. In the 1840 - 50âs, when John Van Lew died, Mary Elizabeth was moved to serve the Davis family, that is, the family of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis for part time. This soon led to a full time position at the Confederate White House in Richmond. During Mary Elizabeth Bowserâs time there, she used her education and photographic memory to help gather intelligence by reading military documents left on top of desks or tables and eavesdropping on people s conversations. Bowser then delivered the information ....