Frank stringfellow confederate spy daniels
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Hayden Peake served in Army military intelligence and later with the CIA’s Directorates of Operations and Science and Technology. He has been compiling and writing reviews for the “Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf” that appear in Studies in Intelligence, published by the CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence since December These reviews are reprinted from Studies in Intelligence.
Spy Sites of Washington, DC, by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton with Henry R. Schlesinger. (Washington, DC: Georgetown, University Press, ) , photos, appendices, maps, index.
Pamela Kessler set the precedent with her book, Undercover Washington: Touring the Sites Where Famous Spies Lived, Worked and Loved (EPM Publications) that included about entries. In the 25 years since then, many new espionage cases have become public and new details about previous ones discovered. In Spy Sites of Washington, retired CIA officer Ro
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Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow, a native of adjoining Culpeper County and prewar Mississippi school teacher, was slight of build (approximately 94 pounds). He served throughout the war as one of J.E.B. Stuart’s “scouts” or military spies. He worked in cooperation with Colonel John S. Mosby in nordlig Virginia. A “master” or “mistress“ “of disguise,” by war’s end he had wreaked havoc behind Union lines. A $10, reward was posted for his capture. After the war, Stringfellow became an Episcopal minister and was later rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Martinsville, Virginia.
During the war, Stringfellow was reportedly surprised by the appearance of a ghost while on a uppdrag and hiding in Stafford’s Aquia Episcopal Church.
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Military Intelligence During the Maryland Campaign
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1 Murfin, James V., The Gleam Of Bayonets: The Battle Of Antietam And Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign, September, , Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, , pg. [AotW citation ]
2 US War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (OR), vols., Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, , Ser. 1, Vol. 19, Pt. 2, g. [AotW citation ]
3 Ibid., pg. [AotW citation ]
4 Carman, Ezra A, The Maryland Campaign of September Ezra A. Carman's Definitive Study of the Union and Confederate Armies at Antietam, ed. Joseph Pierro, (New York: Routledge, ), 13, , 28, See also the address of Bradley T. Johnson in "Reunion of Virginia Division A.N.V. Association" from Southern Historical Society Papers, (Richmond: Southern Historical Society, n.d., reprint Millwood, NY: