This very interesting reading!! A very long story of Kate Plake born in Bath Co., Ky and the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband & his mother. there are several Bath Co. names I am sure some will recognize. Even one of my ancestors, Thomas Jefferson Bailey. she later went on to become a spy for the Union in the Civil War. Sharon Karns ************************************************************************ The Southern Husband Outwitted by His Union Wife: Electronic Edition. Plake, Kate, b. 1838 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Text scanned (OCR) by W. John MacMullen Text encoded by Natalia Smith First edition, 1997. ca. 400K Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997. © This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text. URL: http://docsouth.unc.edu/plake/plake.html Call number CT275 .P66 A3 1867 (Davis Library, UNC-CH) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19th-century America. Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line. All quotation marks, ampersand and dollar signs have been transcribed as entity references. All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as " and " respectively. All single right and left quotation marks are encoded as ' and ' respectively. Indentation in lines has not been preserved. Spell-check and verification made against printed text using Author/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell checkers. Gaps in the text on pages 152 and 153 owing to damage have not been filled. Library of Congress Subject Headings, 19th edition, 1996 LC Subject Headings: Plake, Kate, b. 1838. Abused wives -- Kentucky -- Biography. Women spies -- Kentucky -- Biography. Spies -- United States -- Biography. Custody of children -- History -- 19th century. Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Secret service. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----