Francis Hamit, author of The Shenandoah Spy and The Queen of Washington, will be interviewed Sunday, June 3, at 5:00 p.m. (PDT) on The Gist of Freedom at Blog Talk Radio in an installment titled Civil War Women, black freedwomen spies, Confederate v Union.

Hamit and Michael Coard will discuss the roles of women spies including Mary Elizabeth Bowser,the freedwoman who posed as a slave and stole the Confederates’ war plans.