Henry B. Smith served in the Union secret service through the Civil War, and fifty years later he opened his files. Arranged case by case, they cover New York harbour forts, Fort McHenry and Harper’s Ferry, Confederate prisoners on Johnson’s Island, Ohio Copperheads, bounty jumpers and forgers who drew pay for fictitious soldiers.
A rare insider’s account of Civil War counter-intelligence and the petty crooks of wartime. Download the free EPUB.