Spies of the Civil War

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Samuel Ruth was the superintendent of the RR between Richmond and Fredericksburg. He worked with Elizabeth van Lew. He would bring escapees from the prisons in Richmond to the end of the line at Hamilton's Crossing (very near Fredericksburg). They would cross the River (The Rappahannock) to a farm owned by Fanny Dade. She would move them across King George to the Potomac, to another farm she owned at Boyd's Hole. She would signal the gunboats to come get the men. If that wasn't possible, she would put them into Maryland. Incidentally, Thomas Nelson Conrad had his camp on Fanny Dade's farm ... "on the Hampstead Road, a mile back from The river." That road in now completely on Caladon State Park and almost overgrown. Toward the end of the war, Conrad wanted to break up Van Lew's escape route, so he had them all arrested, including Fanny. She went "State's Evidence" and everybody got off. See Conrad's Book