The Lost Despatch - Illustrated

The Lost Despatch We are in Maryland, just outside the Washington. It is December, 1864, a few months before the last year of the U. S. Civil War, but efforts are being potentially hampered by a Confederate spy who is stealing Union Army dispatches. No James Bond here: the spy is a woman, Nancy Newton who, moreover, is a friend of Abraham Lincoln. Newton's father taught her to ride and shoot and hunt and fish. So, when he was shot leading a charge against the Union, he made his daughter pro...