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Memorial to Nancy Hart at Manning Knob cemetery. For the American rebel heroine, see Nancy Hart. Nancy Hart Douglas (1846–c. 1902 [1913(?)]) was a scout, guide, and spy for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
Fact or Legend? By Lewis Smith. In 2015, the National Women’s History Museum featured Georgia frontierswoman Nancy Morgan Hart, a legendary hero of the American Revolution. Nancy’s self-made mission during the war was to rid the Georgia backwoods of British Loyalists, called Tories.
Born around 1735 on either the Pennsylvania or the North Carolina frontier, Ann Morgan Hart, better known as Nancy, played an important role in the American Revolution as a notorious female rebel and spy.
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Aug 3, 2012 · 1. Nancy Hart Marker. Inscription. The story of Nancy Hart is a blur of fact and legend. Born in Virginia in 1843, she settled with her family first in southwestern Virginia and then in Roane County by the mid-1850s. There, she grew to young adulthood and learned to ride and shoot as well as a man. When the Civil War began, her sympathies lay ...
Apr 23, 2021 · The first grave, that of Confederate spy Nancy Hart (also known as Nancy Hart Douglas), lies high atop a mountain crag just 7.5 miles from the only stoplight in Richwood in Nicholas...
Oct 29, 2014 · Nancy Hart, noted, beautiful Confederate spy, was seized July, 1862, leading attack in which most of Summersville was burned. She killed her guard with his pistol and escaped. She was buried on Manning Knob. Erected 1963 by West Virginia Historic Commission. Topics and series.
Nancy Morgan Hart (c. 1735–1830) was a rebel heroine of the American Revolutionary War, noted for her exploits against Loyalists in the northeast Georgia backcountry. She is characterized as a tough, strong and resourceful frontier woman who repeatedly outsmarted Tory soldiers, and killed some outright.
