Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the national metropolis, v. 1-2
CHAPTER IX.
THE METROPOLIS IN TIME OF WAR. President Lincoln's First New Year's Reception--The Pennsylvania Lancers--Discontent of the Abolitionists--President Lincoln Favoring Colonization--Appointment of E. M. Stanton as Secretary of War-- Espionage--The Secret Service--Female Confederate Spies--Capture by one of them of a Union General.