Nancy Hart

Dates: about 1841 - ??

Known for: Confederate spy in American Civil War

Also known as: Nancy Douglas

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.

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

• Women of the Civil War
• Female Confederate Spies
• Top Picks: Books on Women and the Civil War

• Nancy Hart: A Young Girl
• Account of Shooting a Guard
• Bibliography - books and articles about Nancy Hart at the West Virginia State Archives Library
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