Lincoln's spies : their secret war to save a nation /

Veteran journalist Douglas Waller, who has written ground-breaking intelligence histories, turns his sights on the shadow war of four secret agents for the North, three men and one woman. From the tense days before Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 to the surrender at Appomattox four years...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Waller, Douglas C. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon & Schuster, [2019]
Edition:	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Inaugurations. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Secret service. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865. Appomattox Campaign, 1865 > History. HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Table of Contents:

1861. Allan Pinkerton
George Sharpe
Elizabeth Van Lew
Lafayette Baker
Secret Service
Bull Run
The Ohio Department
Washington
"Enemies of the state"
1862. Richmond
"I have the honor to report"
The Peninsula Campaign
Second Bull Run
Antietam
Fredericksburg
1863. "The great game"
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
1864. Muckraker
The Richmond ring
Ulysses S. Grant
The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign
1865. Richmond's fall
Assassination
Peace.