Spies and Spymasters of the Civil War

By: Donald Markle

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"The history of Civil War espionage is usually mentioned only in passing in general accounts of the war. Lying under a cloud of romanticism, its details have had to be ferreted out in specialized sources. For his complete account of the subject, Markle draws upon just about all the available material and summarizes it with judgment, balance, clarity, and occasional wit. Among the subtopics are technology (photography for mapmaking and Confederate use of a forerunner of microfilm), the value of women spies (less subject to suspicion, they could move with greater freedom than male spies), and the roles of blacks as spies. A good case could be made that this volume is the single most valuable contribution to general Civil War literature so far this year. "--Booklist

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""For his complete account of the subject, Markle draws upon just about all the available material and summarizes it with judgment, balance, clarity, and occasional wit."

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Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Civil War "Spy Chiefs"	p. 1
Intelligence Courier Systems	p. 17
Secret Organizations	p. 25
Northern Sympathizers in the South	p. 26
Southern Sympathizers in the North	p. 29
Technology Assists in Civil War Spying	p. 33
Intelligence Gathering by Cryptology	p. 39
Union Cryptography	p. 41
Confederate Cryptography	p. 42
Unique Spy Groups	p. 49
Confederate Operations in Canada	p. 50
Negro Spies	p. 55
Newsboys	p. 64
Spies from Europe	p. 66
Spies in Europe	p. 71
Telegraphic Spies	p. 78
Imprisonment, Exchange and Execution of Spies	p. 85
Individual Spies	p. 95
Confederate Male Spies	p. 99
Thomas Conrad	p. 99
Major W. P. Gorman	p. 102
Harrison	p. 104
Thomas R. Hines	p. 106
"Renfrew"	p. 110
Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow	p. 111
Lesser Known Confederate Male Spies	p. 114
Colonel Ashby	p. 114
Walter Bowie	p. 114
E. Pliny Bryan	p. 115
John Burke	p. 116
C. E. Coleman	p. 116
Godfrey Hyamns	p. 116
A. D. Lytle	p. 116
Captain J. Maxwell	p. 116
Channing Smith	p. 117
William Smithson	p. 117
Dr. Aaron Van Camp	p. 117
Union Male Spies	p. 119
Spencer Kellogg Brown	p. 119
George Curtis	p. 122
James A. Garfield	p. 124
"Colonel" Philps Henson	p. 126
William A. Lloyd	p. 130
Corporal Pike	p. 134
Archibald Rowand, Jr.	p. 135
Samuel Ruth	p. 139
Felix Stidger	p. 141
Timothy Webster	p. 143
Captain H. H. Young	p. 148
Lesser Known Union Male Spies	p. 150
James Andrews	p. 150
"Tinker" Dave Beatty	p. 150
Harry Davies	p. 150
"Charlie Davis"	p. 151
Alexander Gardner	p. 151
Joseph E. McCabe	p. 152
Thomas McCammon	p. 152
Charles Phillips	p. 152
John Y. Phillips	p. 152
B. W. Saunders	p. 153
William T. Wood	p. 153
Confederate Female Spies	p. 155
Belle Boyd	p. 155
Rose O'Neal Greenhow	p. 159
Sarah Slater	p. 164
Lesser Known Confederate Female Spies	p. 167
Mrs. Braxley	p. 167
Belle Edmondson	p. 167
Antonia Ford	p. 167
Laura R. Hanna	p. 168
Nancy Hart	p. 168
Augusta Morris	p. 169
Ginnie Moon	p. 169
Lottie Moon	p. 169
Ann Patterson	p. 170
Kate Patterson	p. 170
Union Female Spies	p. 171
Mrs. E. H. Baker	p. 171
Pauline Cushman	p. 173
Emma Edmonds	p. 175
Elizabeth Van Lew	p. 179
Lesser Known Female Union Spies	p. 187
Mrs. Frances Abel	p. 187
Hattie Lawton	p. 187
Jeanette Laurimer Mabry	p. 188
Mrs. Green	p. 188
Mrs. Rice	p. 188
Dr. Mary E. Walker	p. 188
Rebecca West	p. 189
Listing of All Known Civil War Spies	p. 191
Addendum to Revised Edition	p. 217
Foreword	p. 217
"After Life"	p. 225
Amateur Hour	p. 235
How Far We Have Come	p. 241
Glossary of Civil War Spy Terms	p. 251
Listing of Books Written by Civil War Spies	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 269
Index to Addendum	p. 279
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