"Great Women of the Civil War"

This is the book I'm currently reading for the Reading Challenge. Female spies often carried secret messages under their big hoop skirts and in their hair! Mary Elizabeth Bowser was a freed slave who worked at the Confederate White House. She was educated and had a good memory, so she was able to recite Confederate war plans to Union leaders. I also learned that before the Civil War, most nurses were men.

Pam

Greetings from Leavenworth Public Library

1/14/2010 We’re starting to thaw out here in Leavenworth. Last week we were snowed in-a good opportunity to sit by the fire and rack up a few pages for the Young Adult Reading Challenge. Currently, I’m re-reading A Year Down Yonder and A Long Way from Chicago by Peck. Since I moved to the Reference Dep’t. from Children’s, I haven’t really read much from those shelves! —a nice change.

Pam