Marie Belle Boyd

By msabourin

  • Birth Date

    This was when Marie Boyd was born.

  • Started school

    She bagan school at Mount Washington Female College of Baltimore.

  • Ended School

    Ended school at the Mount Washington Female College of Baltimore.

  • Organizing Parties to visit the troops

    When the Civil War began Belle started to organize parties to visit the troops.

  • Shot and Killed a Union soldier

    Belle shot and killed a union soldier who pused her mother.

  • Began spying for the confederacy

  • Imprisoned

    Belle was imprisoned in the Old Capital Prison.

  • Moved Prisons

    Moved Prisons
    She was moved to the Carroll Prison.

  • Typhoid Fever

    Typhoid Fever
    She was released from the prison becuase she had Typhoid Fever.

  • Sent to England as a diplomatic courier

  • Ship was captured

    her ship was captured off the coast of North Carolina, while carrying soldiers to Confederate agents in England, and the ship and crew were captured.

  • Marraige to Sam Hardinge

    The marraige failed.

  • Became an actress

    She went by the stage name "Nina Benjamin".

  • Publised a memior book

    Publised a memior book
    It was called "Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison".

  • Started a show in England as an actress

  • Marraige to John Swainston Hammond

  • Discharged from mental hospital

  • Divorced from John Swainston Hammond

  • Married Natheniel Rue High

  • Death

    Death
    Died in the Wisconsin Dells, buried in Spring Grove Cemetary.