{"product_id":"2940015500998","title":"Intel In The Civil War","description":"Though much has been written about the Civil War itself, little has been written about the spy war that went on within.\u003cbr\u003eThe chronicling of Civil War intelligence activities challenges historians because of the lack of records, the\u003cbr\u003elack of access to records, and the questionable truth of other records. Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederacy’s\u003cbr\u003eSecretary of State, burned all the intelligence records he could find as federal troops entered Richmond.\u003cbr\u003eUnion intelligence records were kept sealed in the National Archives until 1953. A few individuals involved\u003cbr\u003ein intelligence gathering burned their personal papers while others chose to publish their memoirs, though\u003cbr\u003egreatly embellishing their exploits. Even today, the identities of many spies remain secret.\u003cbr\u003eHenry Thomas Harrison, for example, was a Confederate spy whose intelligence set in motion the events\u003cbr\u003ethat produced the battle of Gettysburg. But neither his first name nor details of his long career as a spy were\u003cbr\u003eknown until 1986, when historian James O. Hall published an article about him.\u003cbr\u003eThough the idea of centralized intelligence gathering was decades away, the age-old resistance to the idea\u003cbr\u003ewas present even then. Neither side saw the need to create such intelligence organizations, but each side\u003cbr\u003eapproached the idea of effectively acquiring intelligence in their own way. The Confederacy’s Signal Corps,\u003cbr\u003edevoted primarily to communications and intercepts, included a covert agency, the Secret Service Bureau.\u003cbr\u003eThis unit ran espionage and counter-espionage operations in the North. Late in the war, the bureau set up a\u003cbr\u003esecret headquarters in Canada and sent out operatives on covert missions in Northern states. The Union’s\u003cbr\u003eBureau of Military Information, unlike the Confederacy’s Secret Service Bureau, operated for specific gener-\u003cbr\u003eals rather than for the Union Army itself. But here was born the idea of what would eventually become a\u003cbr\u003ecentralized military intelligence division.\u003cbr\u003eEach side still used age-old intelligence techniques, such as code-breaking, deception, and covert surveil-\u003cbr\u003elance. However, into this modern war came two innovations that would endure as tools of espionage: wire-\u003cbr\u003etapping and overhead reconnaissance.\u003cbr\u003eWhat follows is a look at some of the highlights of how the North and the South gathered and used their\u003cbr\u003einformation, the important missions, and the personalities. From this special view, the focus is not on the\u003cbr\u003ebattlefield, but on a battle of wits.\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSaving Mr. Lincoln\u003cbr\u003eIntelligence Collection -- The South-\u003cbr\u003eIntelligence Collection -- The North-\u003cbr\u003eThe Bureau of Military Information\u003cbr\u003eBlack Dispatches\u003cbr\u003eIntelligence’s New Tools\u003cbr\u003eIntelligence Overseas\u003cbr\u003eConspiracy in Canada\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003ePostscript: Then and Now, the Guard Posts at Langley\u003cbr\u003eSuggested Reading","brand":"Chris Capps","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069558243568,"sku":"2940015500998","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015500998_p0.jpg?v=1763620909","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015500998","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}