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Mary Louveste was an African-American Union spy in Norfolk, Virginia, during the United States Civil War. She delivered details of plans for the conversion of the wrecked USS Merrimack to an ironclad that would be named the CSS Virginia and which represented a great advance in Confederate naval capabilities.[1]

  1. ^ "A true Civil War spy story: "The Treason of Mary Louvestre"". WNN. Retrieved 29 April 2016.

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