Beaver County News | 1925-11-06 | Page 2 | Famed War Spy Went to Her Death Alone

Famed War Spy Went to Her Death Alone During the Civil war there were many spies on both sides, some of them women. From Memphis, Tenu., there came to serve the Confederate cause, Virginia li. Moon, a girl so full of pop that everybody called her "Miss Ginger." It is said she had no fear of death. She carried morphine and dispatches through the Union Lines. Twice she won release from her captors by exercising her wiles on them. She was first arrested in Cincinnati by an ofllcer who was once chief of General Grant's staff. She was commended by Jefferson Davis for her work. As a h,eart-breaker this girl was no slouch ; she boasted of 14 bona fide proposals she had spurned when a southern belle. ' In her later life Miss Moon did some i acting for the movies ; then she settled down in New York alone. She died recently at the age of eighty-one. ; Pathfinder Magazine.