From the September 14, 2013, Eastern (Maryland) Shore "Civil War Series: Meet Clara Gunby, a spy for the Confederacy" by Brice Stump.
"She was everything a woman of the Victorian era shouldn't have been: opinionated, independent, political and outspoken," said Aleta Davis.
Clara Gunby was also an activist. When the Civil war came, she refused to show any respect for the Union and even went so far as to refuse to walk under any Union flags which were stretched out across Bridge (Main) Street in Salisbury, Maryland.
When Union soldiers spotted her doing this, they arrested her and sent her to Baltimore for a military trial. Once there, she was told she would be released if she took the Oath of Allegiance to the federal government as was required of so many others in Maryland's Shore Region.
She refused, saying, "Not I. Death before submission."
--Old Secesh
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