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Browsing named entities in a specific section of The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller). Search the whole document.
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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 13
Part II
Military information
The Secret service of the Federal armies
William Wilson—a scout with the army of the Potomac
The famous Allan Pinkerton——the month of the battle of Antietam
The name of Allan Pinkerton became one of the most famous in secret-service work, the world over.
This keen-witted detective came to America from Scotland about twenty years before the opening of the Civil War. He was conducting a successful agency in Chicago when his friend, George B. McClellan, sent for him to be chief detective in the Department of the Ohio.
Shortly after, he went to Washington and under General McClellan directed the secret-service operations in the Army of the Potomac, besides doing extensive detective work for the provost-marshal at the Capital.
As a stanch admirer of McClellan, Pinkerton refused to continue in the military end of the service after the general's removal in November, 1862.
He remained, however, in Government service, investigating cotton <
China (China) (search for this): chapter 13
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 13
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 13
Part II
Military information
The Secret service of the Federal armies
William Wilson—a scout with the army of the Potomac
The famous Allan Pinkerton——the month of the battle of Antietam
The name of Allan Pinkerton became one of the most famous in secret-service work, the world over.
This keen-witted detective came to America from Scotland about twenty years before the opening of the Civil War. He was conducting a successful agency in Chicago when his friend, George B. McClellan, sent for him to be chief detective in the Department of the Ohio.
Shortly after, he went to Washington and under General McClellan directed the secret-service operations in the Army of the Potomac, besides doing extensive detective work for the provost-marshal at the Capital.
As a stanch admirer of McClellan, Pinkerton refused to continue in the military end of the service after the general's removal in November, 1862.
He remained, however, in Government service, investigating cotton c<
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
Bealeton (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
John C. Babcock (search for this): chapter 13
Joseph Hooker (search for this): chapter 13
William Moore (search for this): chapter 13