we'll also talk about people like this woman, antonia ford. she was a spy. i think about what i was saying earlier about the four things that a woman supposed to be submissive, domestic, pious pious, don't you think those would be great skills to be able to sneak around. when antonia ford was young she was living in virginia and her father lived there. family between washington, d.c. and manassas, virginia. and her father being a very hospitable southerner opened his home so people could come and stay. antonia used it as an opportune to kind of find out what things were going on and shared that information. sadly, she caught because they by process elimination they said this information was only shared in this at this time and the only people who could possibly have known this was mr. ford and his daughter. so they arrested her along with some of the other people and put her in prison in the infamous old capitol prison d.c. she didn't have too bad of a time. when her captors took a shine to her. his name was willard, the heir to the willard hotel, d.c. and e