William A. Tidwell - April 65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War
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William A. Tidwell establishes the existence of a Confederate Secret Service and clarifies the Confederate decision making process to show the role played by Jefferson Davis in clandestine operations. While the book focuses on the Confederate Secret Services involvement with the Lincoln assassination, the information presented has implications for various other aspects of the Civil War. The most thorough description of the Confederate Secret Service to date, April 65 provides previously unknown records and traces the development of Confederate doctrine for the conduct of irregular warfare. In addition it describes Confederate motives and activities associated with the development of a major covert effort to promote the creation of a peace party in the North. It shows in detail how the Confederates planned to attack the military command and control in Washington and how they responded to the situation when the wartime attack evolved into a peacetime assassination. One of the most significant pieces of new information is how the Confederates were successful in influencing the history of the assassination.
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April '65 : Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War
author
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Tidwell, William A.
publisher
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Kent State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0873385152
print isbn13
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9780873385152
ebook isbn13
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9780585239811
language
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English
subject
Confederate States of America--History, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Secret service, Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Assassination.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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E608.T5 1995eb
ddc
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973.7/86
subject
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Confederate States of America--History, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Secret service, Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Assassination.
April '65
Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War
William A. Tidwell
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1995 by The Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio 44242 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 94-33226 ISBN 0-87338-515-2 Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tidwell, William A. April '65 : Confederate covert action in the American Civil War / William A. Tidwell. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87338-515-2 (cloth : alk.) 1. Southern StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Secret service. 2. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Secret service. 3. Lincoln, Abraham, 18091865Asassination. I. Title. E608.T5 1995 973.786dc20 94-33226 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data are available.
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Contents
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction: Come Retribution Revisited
1
one Confederate Gold
14
two The Organization of Secret Service
30
three The Greenhow Organization
57
four Sage and the Destructionists
77
five The Confederate Secret Service in Canada
107
six April '65
160
Appendix A Table of Requests for Treasury Warrants for Secret Service Money
197
Appendix B Organization of Private Warfare, by B. J. Sage
205
Appendix C: Bill to Establish a Bureau for Special and Secret Service
213
Notes
223
Bibliography
243
Index
250
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Preface
In 1976 I bought a small piece of country property in Virginia in King George County, in the "Northern Neck" of Virginia between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers. My sons and I discovered a very old log cabin on the property and decided to restore it. When we were fairly well along with our task, I told the local newspaper about our work, thinking that their readers might be interested in learning about this piece of local history. Indeed, the paper printed a nice story about the cabin, complete with pictures.
I later learned that in working on the story of the cabin the editor had gone to the County Clerk's office to find out who had owned the property. The ladies in the office reported that they had looked up the same property a short time before because "a couple of men were writing a book about John Wilkes Booth, and they said that he spent the night at that place."1
That got my attention. I knew that Booth had fled to Virginia after the assassination and that he had been killed in nearby Caroline County, but I knew almost nothing else about Booth or the assassination. My son, Robert, who at the time was working in his school library, brought home Stanley Kimmel's The Mad Booths of Maryland for me to read.2 This book had a fairly detailed description of the main events of Booth's escape through southern Maryland and into Virginia, treating it as a picaresque journey from one adventure to another. To Kimmel, the escape was a series of unrelated coincidences; but to me,
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having spent my entire adult life in association with the American intelligence community, it seemed clear that there were threads of manipulation present. It appeared that Booth was being "handled" and that there were players in the drama who did not appear on stage.
Determined to find out what really happened, I began to investigate the literature bearing on Confederate secret service work and discovered that very little had been written on the subject. One of the principal books was by John Bakeless, with whom I had served in G-2, the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department General Staff, during World War II.3 I had long admired Bakeless for his discovery of Christopher Marlowe's association with the intelligence service of Queen Elizabeth I, but I found that his book concentrated on the more sensational exploits of pro-Confederate individuals who had been caught during the war or who had written memoirs after the war. Unfortunately, Bakeless did not try to analyze the concepts and organizations used by the Confederates in their secret service work. That information is essential if one is to understand the objectives and the strategy of a nation, but it is dry stuff to some readers, and Bakeless may have been forced to write in a more sensational manner in order to attract readers for a commercial publisher.
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