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Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Between the Lines, by Henry Bascom Smith
Title: Between the Lines
Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
Author: Henry Bascom Smith
Release Date: February 7, 2008 [eBook #24541]
Language: English
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BETWEEN THE LINES
Secret Service Stories
Told Fifty Years After
By
BVT. MAJOR H. B. SMITH
Chief of Detectives and Assistant
Provost Marshal General with
Major General Lew Wallace
Civil War
BOOZ BROTHERS
114 WEST FIFTY-THIRD STREET
NEW YORK
Copyright, 1911, by
HENRY BASCOM SMITH
Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co.
New York
DEDICATED
TO
SAMUEL GRAHAM BOOZ
TO WHOSE PERSISTENCY IN THUMPING OUT ON HIS TYPEWRITER THE WORDS HEREIN HAS RENDERED IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO INFLICT MY FIFTY-YEAR-OLD STORIES ON MY FRIENDS
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Apology | 17 |
| FILE I | |
| The Harry Gilmor Sword—General Wallace's Comments | 21 |
| FILE II | |
| 1861-1862 New York Harbor—Fort Schuyler—Fort Marshal—Aunt Mag | 25 |
| FILE III | |
| 1862-1863 Fort McHenry—General Morris—Colonel Peter A. Porter— Harper's Ferry—Halltown—Trip to Johnson's Island—Lieutenant-General Pemberton and other Confederate Officers—Ohio Copperheads—Incident of York, Pa., Copperheads—Dramatic incident on July 4th, 1863, at Fort McHenry | 30 |
| FILE IV | |
| A taste of the Draft Riots, July 13th, 1863, when conveying wounded Confederates from Gettysburg to David's Island, New York Harbor— Governor Seymour's questionable conduct—A mysterious Mr. Andrews of Virginia—"Knights of the Golden Circle"—"Sons of Liberty" and a North Western Confederacy—Uncle Burdette—The Laurel incident | 37 |
| FILE V | |
| Appointed Assistant Provost Marshal at Fort McHenry, where I began my first experience in detective work—Somewhat a history of my early life—Ordered to execute Gordon by shooting | 50 |
| FILE VI | |
| Detective work required an extension of territory—A flattering endorsement by Colonel Porter—Introducing Christian Emmerich and incidentally Charles E. Langley, a noted Confederate spy | 57 |
| FILE VII | |
| Investigator's education—I branded E. W. Andrews, adjutant-general to General Morris, a traitor to the Colors | 63 |
| FILE VIII | |
| Initial trip down Chesapeake Bay after blockade runners and contraband dealers and goods, incidentally introducing Terrence R. Quinn, George G. Nellis and E. W. Andrews, Jr.—A description of a storm on the Chesapeake | |