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Belle Boyd
Isabella Maria Boyd (May 4, 1843〔The date in the Boyd Family Bible is 4 May 1843, , but Boyd insisted it was 1844, and that the entry was in error. See also, . Despite Boyd's assertion, many reliable sources give the year of birth as 1844 and the date as May 9th. , 〕 – June 11, 1900), best known as Belle Boyd, as well as ''Cleopatra of the Secession'' and ''Siren of the Shenandoah'', was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. She operated from her father's hotel in Front Royal, Virginia, and provided valuable information to Confederate general Stonewall Jackson in 1862.
==Early life==
Belle Boyd was born on May 9, 1844, in Martinsburg, Virginia (now part of West Virginia). She was the eldest child of Benjamin Reed and Mary Rebecca (Glenn) Boyd. Boyd would describe her childhood as idyllic, living a care-free life of a reckless tomboy who climbed trees, raced through the woods, and dominated brothers, sisters, and cousins. Despite her family's lack of money, Boyd received a good education. After some preliminary schooling, she attended the Mount Washington Female College at Baltimore, Maryland beginning in 1856.〔〔Mount Washington Female College was chartered on March 10, 1856 and first admitted students that May.〕
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