Alton Prison Housed A Cross-Dressing Spy During Civil War

by

John J. Dunphy

Originally published in the 4/17/11 edition of The [Alton, IL] Telegraph. There’s a chapter on Mary Ann Pitman in my book Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois. Signed copies are available through me at my Second Reading Book Shop.

John J. Dunphy is the author of Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois, Lewis and Clark’s Illinois Volunteers, From Christmas to Twelfth Night in Southern Illinois, Murder and Mayhem in Southwestern Illinois and Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials. He is also the author of the following collections of poetry: Old Soldiers Fading Away, Zen Koanhead, pagan rites, Stellar Possibilities, Dark Nebulae, Bullet Cluster and Touching Each Tree.