Category: Rose O’Neal Greenhow
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Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow Drowns Off the North Carolina Coast When a Yankee Vessel Runs Her Ship Aground, and She Falls in While Holding $2000 in Gold. October 1, 1864.
Image: Rose O’Neal Greenhow with her youngest daughter and namesake, “Little” Rose, at the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C., 1862. (Public Domain) On this day in history, October 1, 1864, Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow drowns off the North Carolina coast when a Yankee vessel runs her ship aground, and she falls in while holding…
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