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Nancy Hart Douglas (1846–c. 1902 [1913 (?)]) was a scout, guide, and spy for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Serving first with the Moccasin Rangers, a pro-Confederate guerrilla group in present-day West Virginia, she later joined the Confederate Army and continued to serve as a guide and spy under General Stonewall Jackson .
When one of Hart’s children discovered a British soldier spying on the Hart home, Nancy doused the man with boiling water that she was using to make soap before tying him up and turning him over to Patriot forces.
According to tradition, Rebel spy Nancy Hart led a Confederate raid on the Union position at Summersville in Nicholas County on July 25, 1862. Hart was only in her late teens at the time. Early in the Civil War, she’d worked closely with the Confederate Moccasin Rangers as a scout and spy.
Female Spies of the Confederacy. Bruce Yuanyue Bi / Getty Images. By. Jone Johnson Lewis. Updated on May 31, 2019. Belle Boyd, Antonia Ford, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Nancy Hart Douglas, Laura Ratcliffe, and Loreta Janeta Velazquez: these women spied during the American Civil War, passing information to the Confederate States of America.
Between 1861 and 1865, a group of 40 LaGrange women organized an all-woman militia, the Nancy Harts. Organized in military formations and skilled in marksmanship and battle tactics, the women...
During the American Civil War, Nancy Hart, the noted Confederate spy, led an attack upon the town (July 1861), capturing a Union force and burning most of the buildings. She was later captured but escaped to Confederate lines; she returned to settle in the area after the war.
The group called themselves the “Nancy Harts,” or “Nancies,” in honor of Nancy Hart, a Patriot spy who outwitted and killed a group of Tories at her northeast Georgia cabin during the Revolutionary War (1775-83).
