Behind Enemy Lines: Civil War Spies, Raiders, and Guerrillas

by Jones, Wilmer L.

• ISBN13: 9780878331918
• ISBN10: 0878331913
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

This book exposes the hidden, often unknown initiatives of the War Between the States and brings their architects and executors to light.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Part 1 A Web of Deception: Blue and Gray Spies	1	(98)
Union Private Eye	21	(14)
Allan Pinkerton
Union Double Agent	35	(12)
Timothy Webster
``Crazy Bet''	47	(11)
Elizabeth Van Lew
Siren of the Shenandoah	58	(9)
Belle Boyd
Rebel Rose	67	(11)
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
The Death of a President	78	(21)
John Wilkes Booth
Part 2 Warriors Behind the Lines: The Raiders	99	(106)
Gray Ghost of the Confederacy	112	(16)
John Singleton Mosby
Bold Cavalier	128	(19)
J.E.B. Stuart
Brief Glory	147	(14)
Turner Ashby
Maryland's Gallant Harry	161	(13)
Harry Gilmor
Kill-Cavalry	174	(12)
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
Thunderbolt of the Confederacy	186	(19)
John Hunt Morgan
Part 3 Fighting Under the Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare	205	(53)
Fanatical Abolitionist	215	(12)
John Brown
Guerrilla with a Vendetta	227	(10)
Champ Ferguson
Deadly Duo	237	(21)
William Quantrill
``Bloody Bill'' Anderson
Epilogue: The Aftermath of Violence	258	(22)
Endnotes	280	(31)
Bibliography	311	(8)
Index	319