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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Lincoln's minister of mystery
    sub title: Henry Shelton Sanford and Civil War intelligence
  name:
    name part: Perry, David D.
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 191 pages illustrations 23 cm
  abstract: "For the first time, the little-known life of "secret service" agent Henry Shelton Sanford is revealed in this new biography. Based upon Sanford's original correspondence, this book covers the entire life of Lincoln's unofficial Secret Service and C.I.A. chief based in Europe during the Civil War. Sanford bought rifled guns, hired private detectives to spy on Confederate purchasing agents and developed a comprehensive intelligence network throughout Europe at this time. That espionage web provided the U.S. State Department with the data and the insight necessary to allow Abraham Lincoln to have "one war at a time" and save the country. In the end, primal ambition, powerful enemies, extravagant living and having married what many considered to be the most beautiful woman in America at the time, Henry Sanford died in debt and was quickly forgotten by history. This work brings back the power and the mystery of this unknown figure and gives him the credit due for his "secret service" work during the American Civil War."-- Provided by publisher.
  note: David D. Perry.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sanford, H. S
      name part: 1823-1891
  subject:
    topic: Secret service
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Diplomats
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Secret service
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Foreign relations
    temporal: 1861-1865
  subject:
    topic: Diplomates
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 19e siècle
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Relations extérieures
    temporal: 1861-1865
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
  classification: E608.S73 P47 2026
  classification: 973.7/85092
  classification: HIS036050
  identifier: 9781476697987
  identifier: 1476697981
  identifier: 9781476657875
  identifier: 2026002925
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 260313
    record change date: 20260511163032.0
    record identifier: in00005781470
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng