Author: Joseph Orton KerbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
383 pages, water stained, acidification, yellow cover.
A Boy Spy in Dixie
Author: Joseph Orton KerbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
383 pages, water stained, acidification, yellow cover.
The Unknown Spy
Author: Eoin McNameePublisher: Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN: 0375899502
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Danny Caulfield's quiet Christmas break from Wilsons, the school for spies, is shattered by gunshots and a heartrending discovery about his parents. That same night, he's summoned to Wilsons' to prepare for a mission: under an assumed identity, Danny must find a way to protect the Treaty Stone that keeps peace between the Upper and Lower worlds. Meanwhile, the evil Ring of Five pursues Danny, for he is the "true Fifth"—only Danny can unite the members of the Ring and awaken their full powers as master spies.
Further Adventures of the Boy Spy in Dixie
Author: Joseph Orton KerbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Dixie Spy
Author: Jim WaltonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719273251
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
"Dixie Spy" tells the life story of John Edward Henry, a young Midwestern teen that is apprenticed to the town's only doctor to study medicine. He is an atypical farm boy that is raised in the Quaker faith during the time of the war between the North and South. His family has sent him to find an errant younger brother who enlists in the Union army then later, is severely wounded in battle near the nation's capitol. He leaves his medical training and fiancé, promising to return not knowing he will ever see her again. On the way east, our doctor is taken from a train by Jeb Stuarts Calvary to give medical aid for a young rebel officer. He voluntarily commits to be a caregiver for the young relative of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on the journey deep into rebel territory. He is asked by the Confederate command to temporarily serve as a doctor in a rebel army hospital while waiting for an escort back north. He finally wins a release and is escorted north in a magnificent black hearse driven by a rebel spy posing as a mortician delivering a corpse to northern relatives. The trip is fraught with dangers from both armies and desperate deserters.
Lincoln's Secret Spy
Author: Jane SingerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493017381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A month after Lincoln’s assassination, William Alvin Lloyd arrived in Washington, DC, to press a claim against the federal government for money due him for serving as the president’s spy in the Confederacy. Lloyd claimed that Lincoln personally had issued papers of transit for him to cross into the South, a salary of $200 a month, and a secret commission as Lincoln’s own top-secret spy. The claim convinced Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt—but was it true? Before the war, Lloyd hawked his Southern Steamboat and Railroad Guide wherever he could, including the South, which would have made him a perfect operative for the Union. By 1861, though, he needed cash, so he crossed enemy lines to collect debts owed by advertising clients in Dixie. Officials arrested and jailed him, after just a few days in Memphis, for bigamy. But Lloyd later claimed it was for being a suspected Yankee spy. After bribing his way out, he crisscrossed the Confederacy, trying to collect enough money to stay alive. Between riding the rails he found time to marry plenty of unsuspecting young women only ditch them a few days later. His behavior drew the attention of Confederate detectives, who nabbed him in Savannah and charged him as a suspected spy. But after nine months, they couldn’t find any incriminating evidence or anyone to testify against him, so they let him go. A free but broken man, Lloyd continued roaming the South, making money however he could. In May 1865, he went to Washington with an extraordinary claim and little else: a few coached witnesses, a pass to cross the lines signed “A. Lincoln” (the most forged signature in American history), and his own testimony. So was he really Lincoln’s secret agent or nothing more than a notorious con man? Find out in this completely irresistible, high-spirited historical caper.
Mission to Mao
Author: Sara B. CastroPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1647124514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"In the midst of World War II, the United States sent a liaison mission to the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines in Yan'an, China. Nicknamed the "Dixie Mission," for its location in "rebel" territory, it was an interagency delegation that included intelligence officers from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). The intelligence officers were there to gather intelligence that would help the war effort against Japan, but interagency and political conflicts erupted over whether or not the mission would expand beyond intelligence collection to operations with the Communists. Mission to Mao is a social history of the OSS officers in the field and their clash with political appointees and Washington over the direction of the US relationship with the Chinese Communists. The book reveals the attempts of America's inexperienced intelligence officers to improvise operations and to try to define a role for themselves. The book takes us beyond the history of "China hands" versus American anticommunists who backed Chinese Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek, introducing more nuance. Sara B. Castro shows how potential benefits for the war effort were thwarted by politicization, but she also shows how the OSS officers overreached their authority and suffered from their own biases and blindspots. The book draws upon over 14,000 unpublished records from five archives plus numerous published white papers, memoirs, and scholarly studies to with a focus on the individual American intelligence officers who spent time in Yan'an working with Communist leaders"--
Spies
Author: Jay Robert NashPublisher: M. Evans
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Cloaks, daggars, and skeletons in the closet! Read the secrets of real secret agents.
Dixie's Dirty Secret
Author: James DickersonPublisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765603401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
After the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 mandated the desegregation of schools nationwide, the legislature in the state of Mississippi created the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, the basic mission of which was to prevent integration in that state. This book is an investigative history of the Commission, other government agencies (including the FBI), and organized crime, all of which conspired to break the law in dealing with civil-rights and antiwar activists during the 1950s and 1960s. The author uncovers new information about the efforts of FBI agents to combat integration and exposes the longest-running conspiracy in American history.
Four Years in Secessia
Author: Junius Henri BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Lincoln's Spies
Author: Douglas WallerPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501126857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This major addition to the history of the Civil War is a “fast-paced, fact-rich account” (The Wall Street Journal) offering a detailed look at President Abraham Lincoln’s use of clandestine services and the secret battles waged by Union spies and agents to save the nation—filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue. Veteran CIA correspondent Douglas Waller delivers a riveting account of the heroes and misfits who carried out a shadow war of espionage and covert operations behind the Confederate battlefields. Lincoln’s Spies follows four agents from the North—three men and one woman—who informed Lincoln’s generals on the enemy positions for crucial battles and busted up clandestine Rebel networks. Famed detective Allan Pinkerton mounted a successful covert operation to slip Lincoln through Baltimore before his inauguration after he learns of an assassination attempt from his agents working undercover as Confederate soldiers. But he proved less than competent as General George McClellan’s spymaster, delivering faulty intelligence reports that overestimated Confederate strength. George Sharpe, an erudite New York lawyer, succeeded Pinkerton as spymaster for the Union’s Army of the Potomac. Sharpe deployed secret agents throughout the South, planted misinformation with Robert E. Lee’s army, and outpaced anything the enemy could field. Elizabeth Van Lew, a Virginia heiress who hated slavery and disapproved of secession, was one of Sharpe’s most successful agents. She ran a Union spy ring in Richmond out of her mansion with dozens of agents feeding her military and political secrets that she funneled to General Ulysses S. Grant as his army closed in on the Confederate capital. Van Lew became one of the unsung heroes of history. Lafayette Baker was a handsome Union officer with a controversial past, whose agents clashed with Pinkerton’s operatives. He assembled a retinue of disreputable spies, thieves, and prostitutes to root out traitors in Washington, DC. But he failed at his most important mission: uncovering the threat to Lincoln from John Wilkes Booth and his gang. Behind these operatives was Abraham Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents, who was an avid consumer of intelligence and a ruthless aficionado of clandestine warfare, willing to take whatever chances necessary to win the war. Lincoln’s Spies is a “meticulous chronicle of all facets of Lincoln’s war effort” (Kirkus Reviews) and an excellent choice for those wanting “a cracking good tale” (Publishers Weekly) of espionage in the Civil War.