Kerbey was only a boy when the war began, and he presents this long narrative as a substantially true record of his work for the Union secret service. He slips into rebel territory, observes Pensacola and Fort Pickens, reads Confederate newspapers aboard Admiral Porter’s ship, and rides the railways of Virginia and Tennessee gathering information.
Dedicated to his comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, it is a lively, if embroidered, memoir of espionage in the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.