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summarize this passage i will send the passage.

Answer 1

Union Spymaster

In December 1863, two Union soldiers who had escaped from Libby Prison with the help of Van Lew’s underground network told Union Gen.
Benjamin Butler about Van Lew. Impressed with the stories, Butler sent one of the men back to Richmond with orders to recruit Van Lew as a spy. Van Lew agreed and soon became the head of Butler’s spy network and his chief source of information about Richmond. As instructed, Van Lew wrote her dispatches in code and in a colorless liquid, which turned black when combined with milk.

Her first dispatch, on January 30, 1864, informed Butler that the Confederacy was planning to ship inmates from Richmond’s overcrowded prisons to Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Her note suggested the number of forces he would need to attack and free the prisoners and warned him not to underestimate the Confederates. Butler immediately sent Van Lew’s report to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who ordered a raid, but the Confederate Army had been warned by a Union soldier on its payroll and successfully rebuffed the attack.

Though this attempt to free the prisoners failed, another one—this time by the prisoners themselves—had a better outcome. On February 14, 1864, one hundred Union officers escaped Libby Prison by digging a tunnel under the street—one of the most daring prison breaks of the war. Fewer than half were recaptured. The victory, however small, rallied the hopes of Northerners. Van Lew, however, became even more dedicated to helping the men still suffering in Richmond prisons, particularly those in Belle Isle Prison, which she visited after the Libby Prison escape. Of her stop there she wrote, “It surpassed in wretchedness and squalid filth my most vivid imagination. The long lines of forsaken, despairing, hopeless-looking beings, who, within this hollow square, looked upon us, gaunt hunger staring from their sunken eyes.”

On March 1, Union soldiers once again attempted to free Richmond’s prisoners but failed. Twenty-one-year-old Col. Ulric Dahlgren and Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick led the raid. Dahlgren, who had lost his right leg at the Battle of Gettysburg, was killed in the skirmish and most of his men were captured. Confederate soldiers buried Dahlgren in a shallow grave the following day, but went back and dug up his body after hearing that papers found on Dahlgren proved he and his men were on a mission to kill Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The outraged men put Dahlgren’s body on display at a railroad depot, where crowds of onlookers gawked at it. His wooden leg and the little finger on his left hand were missing. After

several hours, his body was taken down and, on orders of Confederate President Davis, secretly buried.

Van Lew was disgusted by the mutilation of Dahlgren’s body and promised “to discover the hidden grave and remove his honored dust to friendly care.” She asked her most trusted agents to help. Though the Confederates didn’t know it, one man had witnessed the secret burial and was able to tell Van Lew’s operatives where it had taken place. They dug up the body and reburied it until they could return it safely to Dahlgren’s family.

Answer 2

Benjamin Butler recruited Van Lew as a spy for his network. Van Lew wrote dispatches in code and in a colorless liquid, which turned black when combined with milk. She told Butler that the Confederacy was planning to ship inmates from Richmond's prisons to Andersonville Prison in Georgia. One hundred Union officers escaped Libby Prison by digging a tunnel under the street in February 1864, one of the most daring prison breaks of the war. After the escape, Van Lew became even more dedicated to helping the men still suffering in Richmond prisons.
Confederate President Davis ordered the mutilation of Dahlgren's body. Van Lew promised to "remove his honored dust to friendly care" She asked her most trusted agents to help.

Answer 3

Thank you so much

Answer 4

My teacher Was finna Tear me up if i didn't finish dis

Answer 5

Lol

Answer 6

im dead serious but thanks again

Answer 7

yuh im not readin det to long 😌

Answer 8

Moved to English.

Answer 9

Basically summarizing a passage is explaining the main things in the story. Read it first, and give detailed information about the things that stand out throughout the story.