Lincoln's Informer : Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War /

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"Lincoln's Spy follows the Civil War career of Charles A. Dana, who began the war as managing editor of the New York Tribune and was hired by Abraham Lincoln and War Secretary Edwin Stanton to be the government's roving troubleshooter and confidential informant at the front. Carl Guar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guarneri, Carl, 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Stanton, Edwin M. > (Edwin McMasters), > 1814-1869.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Dana, Charles A. > (Charles Anderson), > 1819-1897.
Stanton, Edwin M. > (Edwin McMasters), > 1814-1869 > Friends and associates.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Friends and associates.
United States. > War Department.
United States. > War Department > Officials and employees > Biography.
War correspondents.
Secret service.
Politics and government.
Military campaigns.
Friendship.
Espionage.
Employees.
Espionage > United States > History > 19th century.
War correspondents > United States > Biography.
United States.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Secret service.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "The eyes of the government at the front"
  • "The responsible editor of the Tribune"
  • "A party against the slave power"
  • "Forward to Richmond!"
  • "A printing house divided"
  • "Several propositions"
  • "Mr. Stanton's spy"
  • "At the side of the conqueror"
  • Interlude: "Some duty not yet explained"
  • "As fatal a name as Bull Run"
  • "Glory to God! The day is decisively ours"
  • "Organizing victory"
  • "A hand on Lee's throat"
  • "The deepest shame that has yet befallen us"
  • "All the power of the War Department"
  • "Side politics," spies, and swindlers
  • "The rebellion finished"
  • "Grantism" and retreat
  • Epilogue: Remembering (and forgetting) the war.

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