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Lincoln's Secret Spy: The Civil War Case That Changed the Future of Espionage

Lincoln's Secret Spy: The Civil War Case That Changed the Future of Espionage

Singer, Jane
Stewart, John

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralCivil War Period (1850-1877)

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ISBN10: 1493008102
ISBN13: 9781493008100
Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr
Published: Apr 1 2015
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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?

For many years Lloyd had been hawking his Southern Steamboat and Railroad Guide throughout Dixie, and it was this thorough familiarity with the South and its people--and their familiarity with him--that would have given him a good cover when the time came. In July, 1861, and now desperate for cash, Lloyd crossed enemy lines to collect debts owed by advertising clients in the South.

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