The founder of America’s most famous detective agency tells how, working as Major E. J. Allen, he ran the Union army’s secret service early in the Civil War. He begins with the plot to kill Lincoln in Baltimore on his way to his inauguration, then describes his operatives behind Confederate lines, among them Timothy Webster and the Black agent John Scobell.
A self-serving but fascinating 1883 memoir of Civil War espionage by a man who helped invent American detective work. Download the free EPUB.