In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family's farm in New York, and headed to Washington DC. As an abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old le

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Relates the events of an important early case for American female detective Kate Warne, describing how she went undercover as a society lady on a

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With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, D.C. found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year