Blue Diary, Page 26, Hanging Women

"In some instances under my knowledge + many that I've heard of, women have been hung because they would not reveal where [their husbands or sons were]"

The Confederate Government never officially approved the hanging or execution of any woman during the war. There is also very little evidence of this happening in the South, although it probably did occur amidst the brutal guerrilla warfare in Missouri. The first woman to be officially executed in American history was Mary Surratt, who was charged shortly after the war as an accomplice to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.