The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14782763103)

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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



Text Appearing Before Image:
TIIK FAMOUS ALLAN PINKERTON—TIIK MONTH OF THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM The name of Allan Pinkerton became one of the most famous in secret-service work, the world over. This keen-witted detectivecame to America from Scotland about twenty years before the opening of the Civil War. He was conducting a successful agency inChicago when his friend, George B. McClellan, sent for him to be chief detective in the Department of the Ohio. Shortly after, hewent to Washington and under General McClellan directed the secret-service operations in the Army of the Potomac I sides doingextensive detective work for the provost-marshal at the Capital. As a stanch admirer of McClellan, Pinkerton refused to continue inthe military end of the service after the generals removal in November, 1862. He remained, however, in Government service, investi-gating cotton claims in New Orleans, with other detective work, until the close of the war, when he returned to his agency in Chicago.
Text Appearing After Image:
COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB, CO. AT THE TEXT OF McCLELLANS CHIEF DETECTIVE, 1862 Only a handful of people, in North and South together, knew the identity of Major Allen, as, cigar inhand, he sat before his tent in 1862. His real name was Allan Pinkerton. As the head of his famous de-tective agency, he had been known by General McClellan before the war. He was chosen as the head ofLittle Macs secret service, and remained until McClellan himself retired in November, 1862, only amonth after this picture was made. Directly behind Major Allen stands young Babcock (in the samecostume that he wears with his beautiful horse in the frontispiece), between George H. Bangs andAugustus K. Littlefield, two operatives. The man seated at Pinkertons right is William Moore, privatesecretary to Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War, down from the Capital to consult Pinkerton.