If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

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.