Surveillance and spies in the Civil War : : exposing Confederate conspiracies in America's heartland / / Stephen E. Towne.

• Superior document: Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest
• VerfasserIn: Towne, Stephen E., 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: Athens : : Ohio University Press,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (443 pages).

Table of Contents

• Introduction: the secret history of the Civil War in the north
• "Secret secessionism in our midst": the failure of civilian investigations in the old northwest, 1861-62
• Investigating desertion and disloyalty: Henry B. Carrington and the Knights of the Golden Circle in Indiana, 1862-63
• "They are doing us an immense amount of good": the rise of army intelligence operations in the old northwest in 1863
• An odious system of espionage: the intelligence network created by the Enrollment Act, 1863
• Watching "Mr. Jones": army surveillance of Clement L. Vallandigham, the Ohio gubernatorial election of 1863, and plots to release Confederate POWs in the fall of 1863
• "It is impossible to doubt this": army intelligence in the Northern Department in early 1864
• "What I say about secret dangers is well considered and based on fact": how Rosecrans's detectives infiltrated the secret organizations in early 1864
• "When government determines to act": how Carrington's detectives infiltrated the secret organizations in 1864
• "I feel provoked beyond measure at the indifference of the president": convincing Lincoln of the danger of insurrection, summer 1864
• A "narrow escape from a Civil War": the triumph of military intelligence in august 1864
• "I make no assertions without proof": preserving the northwest in the fall of 1864
• Postscript: the evidence of conspiracy.