Nancy Hart

Living in Nicholas County, then in Virginia and now part of West Virginia, Nancy Hart joined the Moccasin Rangers and served as a spy, reporting on federal troop activity in her home's vicinity and leading rebel raiders to their position. She was said to have led a raid on Summersville in July 1861, at age 18. Captured by a band of Union soldiers, she tricked one of her captors and used his own gun to kill him, then escaped. After the war she married Joshua Douglas.

Nancy Hart on the web

• Nancy Hart: A Young Girl
• Account of Shooting a Guard
• Nancy Hart's Gratitude
• Women Spies of the Confederacy: Nancy Hart
• Bibliography - books and articles about Nancy Hart at the West Virginia State Archives Library
• Another Nancy Hart who served as a spy -- in the American Revolution:
  • Nancy Morgan Hart
  • Nancy Hart

About Nancy Hart

• Categories: female spy, American Civil War
• Organizational Affiliations: Confederacy
• Places: Virginia, United States
• Period: 19th century

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