Virginia Bethel Moon

When the Union forces occupied the city, she was arrested for spying but escaped with the help of her sister.

In the early days of silent film, at the age of 75, Moon acted in several movies, including Robin Hood and The Spanish Dancer.

While there, Moon was kicked out after she shot the stars out of the American Flag and scratched a pro-Jefferson Davis message on a local store window with a ring.

[2] Eventually, both sisters began to help move information back and forth from the North and South and smuggled much-needed quinine and morphine into the Confederacy.

[3] After the war, she ran a boarding house and was considered a heroine in the 1870s yellow fever epidemics.