Title: Spies. Traitors and conspirators of the late Civil War;
Authors: Baker, La Fayette C. 1826-1868.
Publisher: J. E. Potter & company,
Year: 1894
Subjects: Secret service United States; United States History
Abstract: "In giving to the public this volume, it had been the design to present the operations of the Bureau of the National Detective Police during the war, so far as it is proper to make them known to the people. It is not a book of romantic adventures, but a narrative of facts in the secret history of the conflict.
Contents: Introductio : General Baker and the Bureau of Secret Service -- Origin of the Bureau of Detective Service -- Residence in Richmond -- Northern experiences as Confederate agent -- Treason and traitors at the North -- A Knight of the Golden Square -- Disloyalty among the postmasters -- Frauds : disloyalty in Maryland -- Official services and embarrassments : new order of things -- The Bureau in Canada, in the Army -- Walthy traitors, fruitless schemes -- Slavery; Playing rebel general; First District Cavalry -- First District Cavalry -- The animus of secession -- English sympathy with the South; Negro-hate in Washington -- Gigantic vices of the national capital -- A perilous adventure -- Speculation and fraud -- A femal adventurer -- The bounty jumpers -- The bounty jumpers and brokers -- Bounty jumping incidents -- Bounty jumpers in organized bands -- The great conspiracy -- The assassins captured -- The detective police, and the arrest of the assassins -- Letters of the assassination -- Attempted suicide of Wirz.