The female spies of the Confederacy side were enlisted by powerful leaders, so that they could get knowledge on the whereabouts of their enemy 's troops. The confederate women spies would seduce men and use their charm to get into sexual intercourse with them and get information out of them, using their gender as an advantage. They would then pass the information on to the Confederate army so that they could use it against them. Alike in the Confederacy, Union female spies would also lure men into their homes and would try to get their hardest to get anything useful they could out of them. They also used different names to disguise their actual identity. Females were used for their knowledgeable discreetness in gathering information during the war
The female spies of the Confederacy side were enlisted by powerful leaders, so that they could get knowledge on the whereabouts of their enemy 's troops. The confederate women spies would seduce men and use their charm to get into sexual intercourse with them and get information out of them, using their gender as an advantage. They would then pass the information on to the Confederate army so that they could use it against them. Alike in the Confederacy, Union female spies would also lure men into their homes and would try to get their hardest to get anything useful they could out of them. They also used different names to disguise their actual identity. Females were used for their knowledgeable discreetness in gathering information during the war