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The Method in her Madness: The Life of Elizabeth Van Lew
01/19/2011 7:15 PM by John M
Join the Historic Richmond Foundation as they explore the life lived by Elizabeth Van Lew during the Civil War in a lecture with Dr. Elizabeth R. Varon, a professor at University of Virginia and author of the award winning book, Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy.
The Method in her Madness: The Life of Elizabeth Van Lew
January 27, 2011 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM | Dinner + Lecture
St. Catherine’s School | $30
For Tickets: http://www.historicrichmond.com/calendar.php?date=2011-01-27
An interesting fact regarding Van Lew. Maggie Walker’s mother, Elizabeth Draper, worked in the home as a servant and she was born there at the close of the Civil War.
Spy to some, scalawag to others.
I am amazed that there are still people in Richmond who trumpet the cause of the South. Regardless of their various opinions about what started the Civil War, did they really want a system in which human beings were sold as chattel to continue? (This is what would have happened had the South won..there can be no dispute about that fact). Comments like the one above are why some people still make fun of the South and Southerners, and companies still give pause before locating hear…fearing we are all ignorant racists.