Post by JaniceC on May 22, 2018 21:38:44 GMT -7
This is a long shot but I have been trying to find this book for over 40 years. I last read it back in 69 (did a book report and got an H which was the highest mark available).
It was set in the American civil war and she was a spy for the north; he was in the southern army. They kept running into each other during the last couple years of the war and she was almost caught more than once. The book went into quite a bit of detail on how she dyed her skin using walnut juice; when she was undercover as a house servant for (I think) Jefferson Davis. They also revealed the secret of invisible ink (lemon juice?).
I believe the last scene in the book was she came across him after a battle to tell him the war was over and he put down his sword.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
It was set in the American civil war and she was a spy for the north; he was in the southern army. They kept running into each other during the last couple years of the war and she was almost caught more than once. The book went into quite a bit of detail on how she dyed her skin using walnut juice; when she was undercover as a house servant for (I think) Jefferson Davis. They also revealed the secret of invisible ink (lemon juice?).
I believe the last scene in the book was she came across him after a battle to tell him the war was over and he put down his sword.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
. I vaguely remember the first time I read it was when we lived on my grandparents farm (before homesteading); they sold the farm in 1963.