Which detail from Nurse and Spy in the Union Army helps shape the central idea that finding one's way out of difficult situations takes cunning and bravery? The writer describes how the enemy came after her and “numerous saber strokes” were “aimed at her head.”

The writer states that, if she was caught again, she would “consequently be hung up in the nearest tree.”

The writer notes that she “trusted in [her] resourcefulness to escape” when forced to join the Confederate Army.

The writer explains that after escaping the Confederate Army she “turned [her] attention to more quiet and less dangerous duties.”