Women on both sides could be suspected of engaging in treasonous activities, including communicating important information across the lines or actively spying for the enemy. This was especially true in border regions like Washington, D.C., the residence of both the United States Federal government and a large population of Southern sympathizers. Several Washington area women suspected of disloyal behavior were arrested, imprisoned, or in the case of Eugenia Levy Phillips even exiled to the Confederacy. A fiery and outspoken Confederate sympathizer, Phillips often found herself at odds with Union officials. In this journal page, Phillips describes the indignities of her confinement after her arrest by Federal officers in Washington, along with two daughters and her sister Martha, on August 23, 1861.