The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier

LIFE AT HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF POTOMAC--SOME STARTLING REVELATIONS AS TO THE "TRUE INWARDNESS," NOT TO SAY CUSSEDNESS, OF OUR HIGH UNION OFFICIALS--INTERESTING DESCRIPTIONS OF FAM...

CONSPIRACIES AMONG UNION GENERALS AND NORTHERN POLITICIANS--THE DEFENSE OF THAT UNAPPRECIATED ARMY, THE CAVALRY--HOOKER AND DEAD CAVALRYMEN--STONEMAN'S CELEBRATED RAID TO RICHMO...

It was the Rebel Scout, Harrison, who gave to General Lee the first information about the close pursuit of Hooker. This one faithful tramp Rebel soldier carried on foot to Lee a...

Most of the time in Knoxville I was sick and confined to the house, under the kind care of Mrs. Craig's family. Our company of Maryland Artillery, after a time, had been ordered...

We were all expecting another great battle at Hagerstown. I hung close to the headquarters in the stirring days, after Gettysburg, during which I witnessed some scenes that woul...

ARRIVAL AT WASHINGTON--MEETS HON. JOHN COVODE--J. W. FORNEY AND SENATORS--TESTIMONY BEFORE COMMITTEE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR--REMARKABLE INTERVIEWS WITH SECRETARY STANTON--A V...

MARYLAND "REFUGEES"--COERCING INTO THE UNION EAST TENNESSEE "REFUGEES"--PARSON BROWNLOW INTERVIEWED--A HAPPY EXPERIENCE WITH MAGGIE CRAIG--THE BATTLE OF MILL SPRING--FIRST UNION...

From the subsequent questionings of our people North about how things looked in Richmond during the war, I gathered that they all entertained erroneous impressions about the con...

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS INTERCEPTED AT MANASSAS, WHICH ESTABLISHED THE FACT THAT THE REBEL ARMY HAD NO INTENTION, AND WERE NOT ABLE TO ADVANCE AFTER MANASSAS--THE REBEL ARMY DEMORAL...

When I said something to the officials about my own expenses, the Colonel handed me a copy of the parole, saying in a jocular manner: "There is your receipt in full; that paper...

OLD CAPITOL PRISON--BELLE BOYD, THE REBEL SPY, A COMPANION AND FRIEND--A DISGUISED ENGLISH DUKE--INTERESTING SCENES AND EXPERIENCES IN THIS FAMOUS STATE PRISON--PLANNING TO ESCA...

It will be remembered that, on a previous occasion, I had made an entree into the town of Fredericksburg, on the bare back of an old horse, on the morning in August after the ni...

SICK IN RICHMOND--CONCEALED BY A COLORED BOY AND UNABLE TO MOVE--AN ORIGINAL CIPHER LETTER SENT THROUGH THE BLOCKADE TO WASHINGTON THAT TELLS THE WHOLE STORY IN A FEW WORDS--MEE...

A NIGHT'S SCOUT IN JOHNSTON'S ARMY--REBEL SIGNALS--VISITORS FROM THE UNION ARMY HEADQUARTERS REPORT TO REBEL HEADQUARTERS--GENERAL J. E. JOHNSTON'S ESCAPE TO BEAUREGARD REPORTED...

ON TO RICHMOND--A NIGHT OF TERROR--A GHASTLY FIND IN THE WOODS--ATTACKED BY BLOODHOUNDS--OTHER MIRACULOUS ESCAPES--FIRST VISIT TO FREDERICKSBURG--A COLLECTION TAKEN UP IN A CHUR...

I knew by that particular instinct, born of a soldier's daily experience of months among his own kind, that the two Cavalrymen I had seen coming up the road toward me were not f...

A NARROW ESCAPE--RECOGNIZED BY TEXAS FRIENDS AT A RICHMOND THEATRE--PERSONNEL OF THE MARYLAND BATTERY--REFUGEES FROM IRELAND--CAMP LEE, NEAR RICHMOND--OUR CAPTAIN--LIEUTENANT CL...

A SCOUT TO RICHMOND DEVELOPS IMPORTANT INFORMATION--NO FORCE IN FRONT OF M'DOWELL TO PREVENT HIS COOPERATING WITH M'CLELLAN--THE SECRETARY OF WAR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FAILURE OF...

ADMIRAL PORTER SAVES THE BOY'S LIFE--INTERVIEW WITH THE REBEL FLAG-OF-TRUCE OFFICERS, WHO CLAIM HIM FOR A VICTIM--SCENES ON BOARD A MAN-OF-WAR--RETURN HOME BY SEA--RECEPTION IN...

Strategy was another of the new military terms which I had heard used a great deal by these Rebel officers during their conversations among themselves and with their daily visit...

Apparently there were "no men folks" about the house at the time of our morning visit. However, through a window, I saw the white cap of an old lady, whose bright eyes shone thr...

While numerous newspaper attacks were being printed in the chivalrous press of the South concerning a defenseless boy who had succeeded, unaided and alone, in thwarting their pl...

I was having such a pleasant time at my home and among my young friends, that I took no thought of reporting to the officials of the War Department, at Washington. One day we we...

It should be remembered that I am writing of Richmond, as I found it during the beautiful autumn months of September, October and November, 1861. The same conditions did not pre...

As I lay me down to sleep on the front porch of the little old house, close beside an armed Rebel soldier, and not very distant from two other aroused troopers, I realized in a...

The Sunday of July, 1861 (21st), on which the first battle of Bull Run was being fought, found me quietly recruiting from the tiresome adventure in Virginia in the quiet little...

RICHMOND, FALL, 1861--DAILY VISITS TO THE WAR OFFICE, MECHANICS' HALL--EVENINGS DEVOTED TO VISITS IN TOWN--MIXED UP WITH MARYLAND LADIES--FORT PICKENS OPENS FIRE ON PENSACOLA BA...

My telegraph operations were interrupted for a while by a personal incident, that occurred while I was still supposed to be on "sick leave." One night I was in the barber shop o...

I do not now recollect any incident of the trip worthy of mention. I did not, of course, obtrude myself upon our ambassador's dignity, knowing that as long as the boat kept goin...

It was my good fortune to have first seen the light under the shadow of one of the spurs of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in the beautiful Cumberland Valley, in the State of Pennsyl...

I didn't report to General Banks _that_ night--circumstances entirely beyond my control prevented me from doing so. I was, by the "fortunes of war," or my own carelessness, deni...

FAREWELL TO FREDERICKSBURG--GENERAL PLEASONTON--CAVALRY FIGHTING AT BRANDY AND ALDIE--LOOKING AFTER STUART'S REBEL CAVALRY--A COUPLE OF CLOSE CALLS--CHASED BY MOSBY'S GUERRILLAS...

ON DUTY AS A SPY AT THE REBEL CAPITAL, MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA--LIVING IN SAME HOTEL WITH JEFF DAVIS AND HIS CABINET--CONSPIRATORS FROM WASHINGTON INTERVIEWED--BOUNTY OFFERED BY CON...

While I felt that my "dispatch" would ultimately go through to its destination at Washington all right, I was yet quite uneasy about this talked-of advance of the Rebels into Ma...

caused them to infer that they were considered neglectful and needed some prompting and investigation; perhaps it may have been thought that I had been sent out as a spy in thei...