Former slave, Mary Touvestre was a housekeeper for an engineer transforming the USS Merrimac into Confederate’s first warship, the Virginia.
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Posing as a cook & laborer Scobell provided valuable intel about Confederate order of battle, status of supplies & troop morale.
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Scobell also worked w black community leaders to collect info on local conditions, fortifications, & troop dispositions.
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These are but a few examples of the amazing acts of bravery by black Americans during the Civil War. Read more here: http://1.usa.gov/1OAwgiT
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@CIA won't post about Cointelpro! FBI conspired to kill & use counterintelligence against civil rights leaders#BlackHistoryMonth
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@CIA Belief Pinkerton people caused the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 and Abraham Lincoln wasn't the great emancipator.pic.twitter.com/afYDR0LOVm
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@cia: John Scobell was a freed slave recruited by Union intel chief Allan@Pinkerton to spy behind Confederate lines.#BlackHistoryMonth
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@CIA the murderers with v2kCIA and their operators in greece...look at the shit facespic.twitter.com/7TDB8GEkw5
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