Unsung Heroes

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

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The crafty, ingenious spies of the American Civil War were ex-slaves or northerners who posed as shiftless, dim witted souls who pretended to be enslaved in the South but were in fact the critical purveyors of information that led to a decisive victory of North over South.