The Peculiar Truth about the 1st Woman Private Eye
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3 min readMar 5, 2024
- 1861: People who advocated for secession hosted a party in Baltimore, and a woman named Mrs. Cherry attended. She spoke with a lilting Southern accent and wore a pin showing that she favored the Confederacy.
- The woman overheard plans to assassinate the newly-elected President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was traveling by train from his home state of Illinois to his…
