Elizabeth Carraway Howland

Elizabeth Carraway Howland (November 20, 1816 – July 11, 1886; also Harland or Holland) was a Confederate spy during the American Civil War.[1][2][3][4]

Union soldiers captured her town of New Bern, North Carolina. She made useful medicine for captured Confederate soldiers and helped Confederates smuggle food.[5]

References
  1. "Obituaries". Raleigh Christian Advocate. September 15, 1886. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. Nussel, Jill M. (2008). "Separate Spheres". In Frank, Lisa Tendrich (ed.). Women in the American Civil War. ABC-Clio. p. 494. ISBN 978-1-85109-600-8.
  3. Simkins, Francis Butler; Patton, James Welch (1936). The Women of the Confederacy. Garrett and Massie. p. 78. OCLC 560467248.
  4. Anderson, Lucy London (1926). North Carolina Women of the Confederacy. Cumberland Printing Co. p. 18. OCLC 1049904333.
  5. Jill, Canon. Civil War Heroines. Santa Barbara, CA: Bellerphon Books, 2000.
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