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Union spying Allan Pinkerton (left) with Abraham Lincoln. The Union's intelligence-gathering initiatives were decentralized. Allan Pinkerton worked for Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and created the United States Secret Service.
- List of American spies
This is a list of spies who engaged in direct espionage. It...
- List of American spies
This is a list of spies who engaged in direct espionage. It includes Americans spying against their own country and people spying on behalf of the United States.
Pauline Cushman (born Harriet Wood; June 10, 1833 – December 2, 1893) was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. She is considered one of the most successful Civil War spies.
6 de ago. de 2019 · Here are four agents who spied for Lincoln’s Union Army in the all-important Eastern theatre of the Civil War: Allan Pinkerton was a famous Chicago private eye who enlisted to spy for the Union army.
21 de mar. de 2011 · Though neither the Union nor the Confederacy had a formal military intelligence network during the Civil War, each side obtained crucial information from spying or espionage operations.
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19 de ago. de 2019 · WASHINGTON, August 8, 2019 — The world’s “second oldest profession,” as it is known in the parlance of spycraft, found a home in both the Union and the Confederacy in the bloody years of the Civil War.
A mistrustful Union General George McClellan ordered Pinkerton at one point to spy on President Lincoln and the War Department. The insult would later be returned when Secretary of War Edwin Stanton ordered his own spy, Lafayette Baker, to spy on McClellan and Pinkerton.
