Betty Duvall

(1845–1891) was a Confederate spy during the American Civil War.

Betty Duvall
Allegiance Confederate States of America

Betty Duvall

From Washington, D.C., she was the daughter of Eli Duvall Sr. and Sarah (née Thompson) Duvall.

Washington D.C.-based spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow gave her a note about a Union plan for the first Battle of Manassas (or Bull Run) to give to General P. G. T. Beauregard; Duvall carried it tucked in her hair. She continued to be a spy, and for one of her missions she brought her cousin. She was descended from the immigrant Mareen Duvall.[1]

References
  1. Jill, Canon. Civil War Heroines. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerophon Books, 2000.
  • "Betty Duvall". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2009-04-23.


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