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Belle Boyd
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Belle Boyd was born
Belle Boyd was born on May, 9 1844 in Martinsburg, Virginia -
Dred Scott case
Dred Scott was put to trial for moving to a slave state as a free black man. The trial concluded when Dred Scott was accused guilty. -
Abraham Lincoln nominated for US Senate
Future president Abraham Lincoln accepts his nomination into the US Senate -
John Brown Trial
John Brown is put to trial for stealing guns from Harpers Ferry to give to slaves to rebel against their masters. He was hanged for treason. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected president.
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16 president. -
South Carolina Secedes
South Carolina is the first state to secede from the Union. -
Break In
Union soldiers break in to Belle Boyd's house, when she shot a Yankee soldier to protects her mom; starting her involvment in the Confederacy. -
First Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run begins in Virginia. -
Arrested
Arrested by Union soldiers for spying for the Rebels. Later detained in Baltimore for a week. -
Messages to Stonewall
Boyd runs 2 miles on foot to deliver a message to Stonewall Jackson about the Union troop movements. -
Arrested...again
Boyd is arrested again and put into Washigton's Old Capitol Prison. -
Emancipation Proclimation
Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclimation freeing all slaves when the war ended. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg beginsin Pennsylvania. -
Bansihed
Boyd is banished to Canada, if returns she will be put to a death penalty. -
Surrender
Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomatix Courthouse ending the war and freeing the slaves. -
Published
Boyd publishes her memoirs in London. -
Married!
Boyd Marries John Swainston Hammond. -
Ring Ring!
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telophone -
Married... Again
After a divorce from Hammond, Boyd marries Nathaniel Rue High Jr. -
Belle Boyd dies
Belle Boyd dies of a heart attack on June 11, 1900.
