Rose O’Neal Greenhow was born in Maryland in 1817. As an adult she was well-known in DC. Using her connections she collected messages, which she sent to Confederate General Pierre G.T. Beauregard. She helped with Bull Run in 1861. Eventually the Union discovered her and Greenhow was put on house arrest, but that didn’t stop her. Other Confederate spies took the messages south for Greenhow. They would sometimes hide the messages in their hair. Soon the Union sent Greenhow south to the Confederation, where she was welcomed by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Davis sent Greenhow to Great Britain and France to speak against abolition. She even wrote a book, title My Imprisonment, about the Civil War. She met with government leaders in France and London to talk about the Confederation. On her way home her ship, Condor, was chased and then run aground by a Union ship. Greenhow escaped on a rowboat, but it capsized and she drowned. People sometimes said that the money from the sale of her book is what brought her down. She had a military funeral and was buried, wrapped in a Confederate flag, in Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware.