kate warne

The depot of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad in Philadelphia was strangely bustling with an assortment of customers on the evening of February 22, 1861. Business men dressed in tailcoats, high waisted trousers, and elaborate cravats milled about with laborers adorned in faded work pants, straw hats, and long dusters. Ladies wearing long, flouncy,...

An article in the May 14, 1893, edition of the New York Times categorized women as the “weaker, gentler sex whose special duty was the creation of an orderly and harmonious sphere for husbands and children.  Respectable women, true women, do not participate in debates on the public issues or attract attention to themselves.”  Kate...

Her smile could be shy; her glance at times demurs, but her ears never missed a secret.  She was a master of disguises; could change her accent at will, infiltrate social gatherings, and collect information no man was able to obtain.  She cried on command; was stoic while interrogating a suspect, and composed when necessary....