Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

She was buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery in Wisconsin Dells with members of the Local GAR as her pallbearers. Early life
She was born at Martinsburg West Virginia the eldest child of Benjamin Reed and Mary Rebecca (Glenn) Boyd. " Jackson did and that evening penned a note of gratitude to her: "I thank you for myself and for the army for the immense service that you have rendered your country today.

She operated from her father's hotel in Front Royal Virginia and provided valuable information to Confederate general Stonewall Jackson in 1862. Isabella Marie Boyd (May 9 1843 – June 11 1900) best known as Belle Boyd or Cleopatra of the Secession was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War.