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Lincoln's spies : their secret war to save a nation Cover Image Book

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

their secret war to save a nation (cover title)
Waller, Douglas C., (author.).

Summary:

Veteran journalist Douglas Waller 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 later, Waller delivers a fast-paced narrative of the heroes, and scoundrels, who informed Lincoln's generals on the enemy positions for crucial battles and busted up clandestine Rebel networks.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781501126840
  • ISBN: 1501126849
  • ISBN: 9781501126857
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 595 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster edition
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-473) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Subject:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Secret service.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Inaugurations.
Appomattox Campaign, 1865 > History.
Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884.
Baker, La Fayette C. (La Fayette Curry), 1826-1868.
Sharpe, George H. (George Henry), 1828-1900.
Van Lew, Elizabeth L., 1818-1900.
Genre:
Biographies.

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