Title: Death to traitors
Subtitle: the story of General Lafayette C. Baker, Lincoln's forgotten Secret Service chief.
Description: For five years, as Lincoln's Secret Service Chief, Lafayette C. Baker was one of the country's most feared men. This is an account of Baker's life and the effective, but usually undemocratic, methods he employed in his pursuit of the guilty. ().
Subjects: History, Secret service, United States Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: United States
People: La Fayette C. Baker (1826-1868)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865