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She was a good Union gal, and we honor Elizabeth Van Lew in this house! (europe.pub)

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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Van Lew's spy network was so efficient that on several occasions she sent Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant fresh flowers from her garden and a copy of the Richmond newspaper.

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Btw you gotta put a > between the paragraphs too to make it all into one big quote:

>paragraph1
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>paragraph2

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 22 points 2 weeks ago

lmao, thanks, I remember fighting with it a bit after I moved from Lemmy, but I eventually got tired of it and just started letting them divide instead of risking it being on massive run-on.

What does this mean?

While deep in enemy territory, undetected and mostly unsuspected, she sent General Grant fresh flowers as little tokens of Richmond just as a way of saying "I'm here, and I'm invulnerable"

The local newspapers might also contain some intel, being notoriously loose-lipped institutions.