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Francis Hamit will sign and speak about and possibly read from THE SHENANDOAH SPY, his exciting new novel about Confederate Army spy and scout Belle Boyd.  Belle was a 17-year-old girl in Martinsburg, Virginia  in July 1861 when she shot a Union Army soldier who invaded her home and assaulted her mother. She was aquitted on justifiable homicide.  Her passionat advocacy for the South led her to become a Confederate Army nurse, courier, scout and spy.  As a spy she worked mostly from her uncle's hotel in Front Royal which had been taken over by the Union Army as its headquarters. Her affair with a Union staff officer allowed her to discover Union Army plans to trap Stonewall Jackson's Army.  She made a 15-mile ride in the dead of night to find and alert  Colonel Turner Ashby of the 7th Virginia Cavalry to the plan.  A few days later, at the Battle of Front Royal, she ran across the battlefield under fire to deliver further intelligence to...
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