The ring was a network of spies active during the war, organized by Major Benjamin Tallmadge and General George Washington to provide information on British Army operations in the city of New York, the British headquarters.
Its members operated mostly in New York, Long Island and Connecticut between late October 1778 and the British evacuation of New York in 1783.
More specifically, she tells the story of the unknown woman referred to in Abraham Woodhull’s correspondence – only once – as “a lady of my acquaintance.” Woodhull supplies her only a number, 355 (Culper code for “lady”). Wirgau provides a name, a family, and a budding romance with British Major John Andre…