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Belle Boyd was born on May, 9 1844 in Martinsburg, Virginia
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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.
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Future president Abraham Lincoln accepts his nomination into the US Senate
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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.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16 president.
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South Carolina is the first state to secede from the Union.
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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.
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The First Battle of Bull Run begins in Virginia.
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Arrested by Union soldiers for spying for the Rebels. Later detained in Baltimore for a week.
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Boyd runs 2 miles on foot to deliver a message to Stonewall Jackson about the Union troop movements.
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Boyd is arrested again and put into Washigton's Old Capitol Prison.
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Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclimation freeing all slaves when the war ended.
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The Battle of Gettysburg beginsin Pennsylvania.
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Boyd is banished to Canada, if returns she will be put to a death penalty.
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Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomatix Courthouse ending the war and freeing the slaves.
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Boyd publishes her memoirs in London.
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Boyd Marries John Swainston Hammond.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telophone
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After a divorce from Hammond, Boyd marries Nathaniel Rue High Jr.
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Belle Boyd dies of a heart attack on June 11, 1900.
