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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 .
Date of Birth - Death C. 1735 - 1830. 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. A cousin to American General Daniel Morgan, Hart was a stalwart Patriot, who employed her own heroic ...
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.
As historian John Thomas Scott notes, Hart’s memory was cherished in the South. “By the time of the Civil War,” he writes, “the name Nancy Hart seems to have been accepted in Georgia as ...
Other articles where Nancy Hart is discussed: Summersville: 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. Carnifex Ferry…
Georgia’s most acclaimed female participant during the Revolutionary War (1775-83) was Nancy Hart. A devout patriot, Hart gained notoriety during the revolution for her determined efforts to rid the area of Tories, English soldiers, and British sympathizers. Her single-handed efforts against Tories and Indians in the Broad River frontier, as well as her covert activities […]
Hart, Nancy (c. 1846–1902) Confederate spy. Possibly born in 1846, probably in Virginia; died in 1902; married Joshua Douglas (a soldier turned farmer), around 1862. Many of the unsung heroes of the Civil War were women and some were in the dangerous business of spying, among them Nancy Hart. She was born around 1846 and raised in the western ...
