Secret Missions of the Civil War

Philip Van Doren Stern

• Publisher: Garrett County Press
• Year: 2012
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781891053603
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

Civil War historian and celebrated author Philip Van Doren Stern presents an underground history woven from first hand accounts of Civil War spies, scouts, detectives and double agents. Secret Missions of the Civil War gives an inside look into the birth of modern spy warfare: secret codes, Allen Pinkerton, assassinations, McClellan's personal spy, European arms dealing, the Secret Service, Morgan and Mosby, the stunning Mrs. Rose O'Neal, privateers, the New York draft riots and torpedoes. Through astute and carefully documented commentary, Stern shows how seemingly random acts of underground warfare dramatically influenced the course of the war and American history.

Table of contents

• Extended Contents
• Introduction
• 1861
• Washington on the Eve of the War
• The Founder of the Pinkertons Shadows a Beautiful Rebel Spy
• The Future Head of U.S. Secret Service Activities Goes on His First Mission
• How the Confederates Got Arms and Ammunition in Europe
• The First Confederate Cruiser Puts Out to Sea
• The Confederacy’s First Government-Owned Blockade Runner Begins Her Career
• 1862
• Belle Boyd Starts Her Work as a Spy
• A Union Spy Tells How He Operated
• A Female Spy Changes Her Color
• Carrying a Memorized Cipher Message Through the Lines
• A Confederate Cruiser Runs the Gantlet
• 1863
• A Dummy Ironclad Goes on a Secret Mission with No One on Board
• Morgan and His Men Escape from Prison
• The Draft Riots
• 1864
• The Confederate Torpedo Service
• The Tallahassee Terrifies New York and New England
• The Explosion at City Point
• Mosby’s Greenback Raid
• The Confederates Raid Vermont
• The Destruction of the Albemarle
• The Confederates Try to Burn New York City
• 1865
• Capturing a Confederate Guerrilla Leader
• Lee Sends His Last Message to Jefferson Davis
• The Last of the Confederate Cruisers
• Codes and Ciphers in the Civil War
• Copyright