Emma Green

Emma Green (1843–1929) was an American involved in Civil War intrigue in Alexandria, Virginia. Described as a Southern belle, her politics shifted from pro-Union or neutral during the Civil War, after the Union seized her family's hotel to serve as the Mansion House Hospital.

The Civil War After Virginia voted to secede from the United States on May 24, 1861, The Union Army took over the building on November 11, 1861, with the Green family to receive rent from the government in the future. Enlisting in the Confederate Army at the start of the war, in January 1862, Stringfellow was sent to spy in Alexandria under the guise of a dental assistant.

Stringfellow returned again to Alexandria in 1863, again on a mission to spy and recruit new agents. He took the opportunity to meet Green, and they had several meetings with Frank using the name R.M. Franklin. He left the city again after a near exposure of his identity. operating as the Mansion House Hotel until it was then acquired by new proprietors in the early 1880s. A fictionalized version of Emma Green is a key character in the series, serving as a nurse, and is played by Hannah James.

The real Emma Green served only as a template for the depiction on the show. The only details that the two women share are that Emma Green was a daughter of the Greens who owned the Mansion House Hotel and that she was engaged to Frank Stringfellow.