Thomas Beach, an Englishman who fought for the Union under the name Henri Le Caron, spent a quarter-century reporting to British intelligence from inside the Irish-American Fenian brotherhood. He describes the Fenian raids into Canada, the movement’s leaders and prisons, and his eventual unmasking when he testified before the Parnell Commission.
A self-justifying but revealing spy memoir of the 1860s to 1880s. Download the free EPUB.