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 / Jane Singer and John Stewart.

History remembers William Alvin Lloyd as the subject of <span style=""font-style:italic;"">Totten vs. United States -which set precedent for espionage law-but was he a total fraud? <span style=""font-style:italic;""> Lincoln's Secret Spy is a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Singer, Jane Sherrod (Author)
Other Authors: Stewart, John, 1952 March 5-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Lloyd, William Alvin, > -1868.
Spies > United States > History > 19th century.
Spies > United States > Biography.
Secret service.
Spies.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Secret service.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • I was the president's spy
  • My old Kentucky home
  • Oh, to be a minstrel!
  • W. Alvin Lloyd, publisher
  • Acolytes and accomplices
  • Escape from New York
  • The Memphis caper
  • Of actresses and wives
  • He said he would hang me
  • Grave suspicions
  • Shot down like a dog
  • By order of President Jefferson Davis
  • Leaving Dixie
  • Anatomy of a fraud
  • Lay of the last minstrel
  • Post Lloyd ergo propter Lloyd.

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