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Titre(s) : Secret missions of the Civil War [Texte imprimé] : first-hand accounts by men and women who risked their lives in underground activities for the North and South / woven into a continuous narrative by Philip Van Doren Stern
Publication : New York : Rand McNally, 1959
Description matérielle : 320 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Comprend : Washington on the eve of war / Charles P. Stone ; The founder of the Pinkertons shadows
a beautiful Rebel spy / Allan Pinkerton ; The future head of U.S. Secret Service
activities goes on his first mission / Lafayette C. Baker ; How the Confederates
got arms and ammunition in Europe / Caleb Huse ; The first Confederate cruiser puts
out to sea / Raphael Semmes ; The Confederacy's first government-owned blockade runner
begins her career / James D. Bulloch ; Belle Boyd starts her work as a spy / Belle
Boyd ; A Union spy tells how he operated / Spencer Kellogg Brown ; A female spy
changes her color / S. Emma E. Edmonds ; Carrying a memorized cipher message through
the lines / Adam R. Johnson ; A Confederate cruiser runs the gantlet / John Newland
Maffitt ; A dummy ironclad goes on a secret mission with no one on board / David
Dixon Porter ; Morgan and his men escape from prison / Thomas H. Hines ; The draft
riots / Joel Tyler Headley ; The Confederate torpedo service / R.O. Crowley ; The
Tallahassee terrifies New York and New England / John Taylor Wood ; The explosion
at City Point / Morris Schaff ; Mosby's greenback raid / John H. Alexander ; The
Confederates raid Vermont / John W. Headly ; The destruction of the Albemarle / W.B.
Cushing ; The Confederates try to burn New York City / John W. Headley ; Capturing
a Confederate Guerrilla leader / Harry Gilmor ; Lee sends his last message to Jefferson
Davis / John S. Wise ; The last of the confederate cruisers / John Thomson Mason
; Codes and ciphers in the Civil War.
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Stern, Philip Van Doren (1900-1984). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Espionnage -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Services de renseignements -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
États-Unis -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Services de renseignements
États-Unis -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
Genre ou forme : Récits personnels
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : (Hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb41304017t
Notice n° :
FRBNF41304017
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)