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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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command. Shaw, who had been a clerkon a steamboat plying between Nashville and New Orleans,had an accurate knowledge of middle Tennessee, which in thesummer of 183 was in the hands of the Federal army, owingto Braggs retreat from Tullahoma. lie assumed the disguiseof an itinerant doctor while in the Federal lines, and calledhimself Dr. C. E. Coleman. In the Confederate army hewas known as Captain C. E. Coleman, commander of GeneralBraggs private scouts. The scouts dressed as Confederatesoldiers, so that in ease of capture they would not be treated asspies. Nevertheless, the information they carried was usuallyput into cipher. Shaw was finally captured and sent to Johnsons Island.The command of the famous scouts devolved upon AlexanderGregg, who continued to sign despatches C. E. Coleman,and the Federal authorities never knew that the original leaderof the daring band was in safe-keeping in Sandusky Bay. On April 7. 1K4, President Davis, at Richmond, sent the ( 892 ) V
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EVIEW OF HEVIEW5 CO. NEW YORK HERALD HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD, 1863 The Confederate secret service worked through the Northern newspapers to anextent little appreciated. Without any disloyalty on the part of the newspapermen, this was necessarily the case. The North swarmed with spies, special cor-respondents, paid agents, Southern sympathizers by the score, and copperheadsinnumerable. It followed that Richmond often knew pretty much everything worthknowing of the disposition and preparation of the Union forces, and even of theircarefully guarded plans. The Northern newspaper correspondent with the armiesincurred practically all the perils that fell upon the soldier himself, and the moreenterprising and successful he became, the less he ingratiated himself with thecommanding generals, whose plans he predicted and whose conduct he criticisedin newspaper leaders. But it was necessary that the people at home, whose moneywas paying for the armies in the field, should be kept informed how

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