WRIGHT, Rebecca McPherson, spy, born near Winchester, Virginia, 31 January, 1888. She was a Quaker, and her father, Amos Wright, died in a Confederate prison early in the civil war. Her family was one of the few of Union sentiment that remained in Winchester, Virginia, during that period. On 16 September, 1864, she received a note from General Philip It. Sheridan, which was conveyed to her wrapped in a small wad of tin-foil, and carried in the mouth of a negro messenger. It read thus" "Can you inform me of the position of Early's forces, t, he number of divisions in his army, and the strength of all or any of them, and his probable or reported intentions +. Have any more troops arrived from Richmond. or are any more coming, or reported to be coming ?" Having been told of the position of the Confederate army by a wounded Confederate officer, who visited her two evenings previously, she sent a reply to General Sheridan, describing the number of troops and their situation, and upon her information he directed the attack on Winchester. After the battle she was thanked in person by General Sheridan, who always spoke of her as his "little Quaker girl," and in 1867 sent her a gold watch as a memento. In 1871 she married William C. Bonsal, and she has held a clerkship in the United States treasury department at Washington since 1868.