what she was doing and was very serious about her intent to help the confederate army. >> out did belle boyd learn about rose because she wants to the rose. >> bell went to school in washington d.c. and had her suicidal debut and i love this story. she carved surname with her diamond in the window of preschool, belle boyd was here and it was before the war broke out so rose was still the head, a leading lady of washington society and invitations were the most coveted in town and all the politicians that would go to her home and parties, this entertain both democratic and republican politicians and was quite influential across-the-board and if he admired rose an even more so after she became a prominent spy. so let's now move -- we of two of our four women, let's move to the union and talk a little bit about elizabeth. >> elizabeth van lew was the opposite of rose o'neal greenhow. use a union lady living in the confederate capital of richmond, the exact mirror situation. where rose was a celebrated beauty, elizabeth, one of her contemporaries said quote and she was never as pretty as a portra

and the first is belle boyd who provided a lot of comic relief and was, actually, my favorite in a lot of ways because she was insane. >> belle's crazy. >> yeah. >> love my crazy. yeah. >> denise and i were talking before we went on, and we said she was like a sociopath on spring break all the time. [laughter] >> that girl, if anybody remembers spring break where you're like she's having a really good time, but there's something just off about her. that's belle. [laughter] >> and applying in the to the civil war made for some pretty dangerous circumstances. but belle boyd was 17 years old when the war broke out, and she was a confederate sympathizer living in the shenandoah valley, virginia. she had no filter. if sarah palin and miley cyrus had a 19th century baby, i think it would have been belle boyd. [laughter] her opinions and her sexuality. >> it makes you want to see if there are any pictures of belle going -- [laughter] >> i'm sure there are. she wrote this great letter to her cousin that sort of sums up how she felt about herself -- >> which was what she thought about most of t