She was 16 and a spy during the Revolutionary War in the Upstate of South Carolina.
Laodicea Langston, known as Dicey, was small and unobtrusive to the point that she could listen to the conversations of those fighting the Patriots and then pass on the information to her father and brothers.
And in one especially heroic effort, she heard her brother’s camp would be attacked by a group of Loyalists known as the Bloody Scouts, led by William “Bloody Bill” Cunningham…