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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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COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB, CO. AT THE TEXT OF McCLELLANS CHIEF DETECTIVE, 1862 Only a handful of people, in North and South together, knew the identity of Major Allen, as, cigar inhand, he sat before his tent in 1862. His real name was Allan Pinkerton. As the head of his famous de-tective agency, he had been known by General McClellan before the war. He was chosen as the head ofLittle Macs secret service, and remained until McClellan himself retired in November, 1862, only amonth after this picture was made. Directly behind Major Allen stands young Babcock (in the samecostume that he wears with his beautiful horse in the frontispiece), between George H. Bangs andAugustus K. Littlefield, two operatives. The man seated at Pinkertons right is William Moore, privatesecretary to Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War, down from the Capital to consult Pinkerton.
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A NEW SECRET SERVICE—THE MILITARY INFORMATION BUREAU After Pinkertons departure from the Army of the Potomac, the secret-service department was allowed to fall into hopeless neglect-All organization vanished. When General Hooker assumed command there was hardly a record or document of any kind at head-quarters to Hive information of what the Confederates were doing. Hooker was as ignorant of what was going on just across theRappahannock as if his opponents had been in China. With the energy that marked his entire course of organization, he put ColonelGeorge II. Sharpe, of the 120th New York regiment, in charge of a special and separate bureau, known as Military Information. Sharpewas appointed deputy provost-marshal-general. From March J!0, 1863, until the close of the war, the Bureau of Military Informa-tion, Army of the Potomac, had no other head. Gathering a staff of keen-witted men, chiefly from the ranks, Sharpe never let his com-(264)

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