Spies of the Confederacy

Spies of the Confederacy
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 482
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ISBN-10 : 9780486298658
ISBN-13 : 0486298655
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Spies of the Confederacy by : John Bakeless

A fascinating and well-documented account of the true-life exploits of famous and obscure Southern spies who served the Southern cause. Essential reading for Civil War buffs, American History students and spy story aficionados..

Lincoln's Spies

Lincoln's Spies
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Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Total Pages : 624
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ISBN-10 : 9781501126857
ISBN-13 : 1501126857
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Lincoln's Spies by : Douglas Waller

This major addition to the history of the Civil War is a “fast-paced, fact-rich account” (The Wall Street Journal) offering a detailed look at President Abraham Lincoln’s use of clandestine services and the secret battles waged by Union spies and agents to save the nation—filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue. Veteran CIA correspondent Douglas Waller delivers a riveting account of the heroes and misfits who carried out a shadow war of espionage and covert operations behind the Confederate battlefields. Lincoln’s Spies follows four agents from the North—three men and one woman—who informed Lincoln’s generals on the enemy positions for crucial battles and busted up clandestine Rebel networks. Famed detective Allan Pinkerton mounted a successful covert operation to slip Lincoln through Baltimore before his inauguration after he learns of an assassination attempt from his agents working undercover as Confederate soldiers. But he proved less than competent as General George McClellan’s spymaster, delivering faulty intelligence reports that overestimated Confederate strength. George Sharpe, an erudite New York lawyer, succeeded Pinkerton as spymaster for the Union’s Army of the Potomac. Sharpe deployed secret agents throughout the South, planted misinformation with Robert E. Lee’s army, and outpaced anything the enemy could field. Elizabeth Van Lew, a Virginia heiress who hated slavery and disapproved of secession, was one of Sharpe’s most successful agents. She ran a Union spy ring in Richmond out of her mansion with dozens of agents feeding her military and political secrets that she funneled to General Ulysses S. Grant as his army closed in on the Confederate capital. Van Lew became one of the unsung heroes of history. Lafayette Baker was a handsome Union officer with a controversial past, whose agents clashed with Pinkerton’s operatives. He assembled a retinue of disreputable spies, thieves, and prostitutes to root out traitors in Washington, DC. But he failed at his most important mission: uncovering the threat to Lincoln from John Wilkes Booth and his gang. Behind these operatives was Abraham Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents, who was an avid consumer of intelligence and a ruthless aficionado of clandestine warfare, willing to take whatever chances necessary to win the war. Lincoln’s Spies is a “meticulous chronicle of all facets of Lincoln’s war effort” (Kirkus Reviews) and an excellent choice for those wanting “a cracking good tale” (Publishers Weekly) of espionage in the Civil War.

Scouts and Spies of the Civil War

Scouts and Spies of the Civil War
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 080326206X
ISBN-13 : 9780803262065
Rating : 4/5 (6X Downloads)

Synopsis Scouts and Spies of the Civil War by : William Gilmore Beymer

The Civil War was the backdrop for the formation of numerous secret service organizations and the theater for a host of characters involved in espionage from both the North and the South. The pool of spies and scouts comprised diverse individuals, ranging from eager young volunteers signing up for ?extra dangerous duty? for their respective armies to society ladies spying for both the Union and the Confederacy. ø At the turn of the nineteenth century, William Gilmore Beymer went in search of the stories of these first spies and recorded his findings in Scouts and Spies of the Civil War. Beymer?s endeavor was one of the first attempts to move the study of Civil War scouts and spies away from the realm of ?cloak and dagger? romance stories to historical research grounded in factual details. Included in this dynamic collection are personal narratives told to Beymer by a few surviving secret service operatives; stories pieced together from diaries, journals, letters, and archival research; and the remembrances of family and friends that tell of the mothers, daughters, fathers, and sons who risked their lives for their cause.

Civil War Spies

Civil War Spies
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Publisher : Scholastic
Total Pages : 104
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ISBN-10 : 0545130026
ISBN-13 : 9780545130028
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Civil War Spies by : Camilla Wilson

Tells the stories of spies on both sides of the American Civil War.

Spying on the South

Spying on the South
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 514
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ISBN-10 : 9781101980309
ISBN-13 : 1101980303
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Spying on the South by : Tony Horwitz

The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman," the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape, as Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic.

Petticoat Spies

Petticoat Spies
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Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89084920412
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Petticoat Spies by : Peggy Caravantes

Describes the lives and wartime exploits of six women who were spies during the Civil War. Includes Sarah Emma Edmonds, Belle Boyd, Pauline Cushman, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Elizabeth Van Lew, and Belle Edmondson.

The Role of Female Confederate Spies in the Civil War

The Role of Female Confederate Spies in the Civil War
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Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1502655411
ISBN-13 : 9781502655417
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Role of Female Confederate Spies in the Civil War by : Hallie Murray

Barred from fighting for their beliefs on the battlefield, though many tried, Southern women served the Confederacy in other ways, like through the timeless art of espionage. Confederate women used their wits, charm, and beauty to discover Union secrets and carry out covert operations for the war efforts. This insightful book highlights these little-discussed Confederate figures, including the famously persuasive Rose O'Neal. Readers will meet the Moon sisters, who used their acting skills to smuggle information and supplies under the noses of Union soldiers using all manner of disguises.

Spies of the Civil War

Spies of the Civil War
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Publisher : Capstone
Total Pages : 114
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781491478837
ISBN-13 : 1491478837
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Spies of the Civil War by : Michael Bernard Burgan

The United States has been torn in half by the war between North and South. It is vital for an army to know what the enemy is doing and perhaps spread false information as well. Spying is risky if you are caught. Still, it is worth it to help win the war. Will you: *Become a member of the Pinkerton Detective Agency to spy for the North? *Be a wealthy Southern woman spying for the Confederacy in Washington D.C.? *Be a free black man traveling into the South to spy for the Union? You Choose offers multiple perspectives on history, supporting Common Core reading standards and providing readers a front-row seat to the past.

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War
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Publisher : Ohio University Press
Total Pages : 486
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ISBN-10 : 9780821444931
ISBN-13 : 082144493X
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War by : Stephen E. Towne

Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society. At the beginning of the rebellion, state governors in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois cooperated with federal law enforcement officials in various attempts—all failed—to investigate reports of secret groups and individuals who opposed the Union war effort. Starting in 1862, army commanders took it upon themselves to initiate investigations of antiwar sentiment in those states. By 1863, several of them had established intelligence operations staffed by hired civilian detectives and by soldiers detailed from their units to chase down deserters and draft dodgers, to maintain surveillance on suspected persons and groups, and to investigate organized resistance to the draft. By 1864, these spies had infiltrated secret organizations that, sometimes in collaboration with Confederate rebels, aimed to subvert the war effort. Stephen E. Towne is the first to thoroughly explore the role and impact of Union spies against Confederate plots in the North. This new analysis invites historians to delve more deeply into the fabric of the Northern wartime experience and reinterpret the period based on broader archival evidence.

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy

Southern Lady, Yankee Spy
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 9780195179897
ISBN-13 : 0195179897
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Southern Lady, Yankee Spy by : Elizabeth R. Varon

A gripping account of the Civil War era story of Elizabeth Van Lew: high-society Southern lady, risk-taking Union spy, and postwar politician.