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1861. Soon after the start of the Civil War, Belle was organizing parties
to visit the troops. At that time she also shot and killed a Union soldier
who had pushed her mother. She was acquitted of the crime. Shortly thereafter,
she became a courier for Generals Beauregarde and Jackson, carrying
information, delivering medical supplies and confiscating weapons. Belle
made a few heroic rides through battle fields in order to get her "secrets"
across the lines to the South.