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Collection: CREENHOW, ROSE O'NEAL, Papers
New Hanover County--Vfilm±ngton1
London and Paris
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Physical Description:;
6 items : originals — cipher (also photograph) and
diary (with jtypescript memorandum); xerox copies—
letter and address book.
Acquisition: Cipher given by Mrs
Va., September 25, 1964. Mrs.
Lamb, found the code in one of
Ralph Magraw,«BHHHlHBMb , Lexington,
Magraw, the granddaughter of Col. William
the William Lamb diaries when they were
given to the College of Williani and Mary in the late 1930s. Letter of
1863 and address book were loaned for copying by the New Hanover-
Wilmington Museum via Mrs.. E.' ..ty, McEachem, 1969. The diary was trans¬
ferred from the Walter Clark Collection (P.C.8.19) with a memorandum
from Drl. H. G. Jones, April, 1972.
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Description: Roge o'Neal Greenhow (1816-1864), bom Port Tobacco, Md.;
moved to Washington ca. 1831 married Robert Greenhow, 1835; four daughters.
Robert Greenhow was a physician, historian, scientist, and translator for
the State Department [See DAB]. I Widowed in 1854, Rose participated in
secessionist rallies, became ari agent for the Confederacy, was arrested
in August, 1861 for espionage, published a diary of her captivity, My
Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, 1863.
She accepted a diplomatic mission from President Davis and sailed from
Wilmington, N.C. for the British Isles via Bermuda. On the return trip
she was drowned off Fort Fisher) and was buried in Oakdale Cemetery in
For further biographical information see:
and Nash
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. Burger. Confederate Spy: Rose
Wilmington on October 2, 1864.
Ishbel Ross, Rebel Rose, 1954,
0 'Neale Greenhow, 1967. y
In this small collection is a laminated cipher code recovered from
Rose Greenhow’s effects by Colonel William Lamb, the commander of Fort
Fisher. Included are glossy photographs of both sides of the cipher.
An address book once in the possession of the Cape Fear Chapter of
the United Daughters of the Confederacy is now in the New Hanover-Wilmington
Museum. This xerox copy shows ;an unsigned note entered in the front of
the small book "An old address book of your Grand Mother’s.... In her
many letters (which I burned with all others on leaving America this last
time) contained an invitation to witness the unveiling of a statue to her
husband." Under the address of Thomas Carlyle is written "a great
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