Confederate Intelligence and Espionage, Part 1
Rebel spies and intelligence-gathering, Confederate Secret Service and Signal Corps
Portraits of Blue & Grey: The Biographical Civil War Podcast · Recorded History Podcast Network
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Show Notes
This episode surveys Civil War intelligence-gathering and espionage on the Confederate side. We look at the cavalry's role, the Confederate Signal Corps and Secret Service, and introduce a few Rebel spy stories. Part 2 will examine some of the best-known Confederate spies and a few of the strange operations pursued by the Rebel Secret Service.
In this Episode:
12:10 - Jedidiah Hotchkiss, Shenandoah Valley Cartographer
16:30 - Confederate spy Antonia Ford
21:30 - Union General Grenville Dodge, Grant's spy master
24:00 - Sam Davis, the South's Nathan Hale
29:45 - Will Talbot, Virginia cavalryman caught spying in Maryland
31:10 - Frank Stringfellow, top-gun Confederate spy
41:30 - The Iron Scouts and the Beefsteak Raid
47:00 - Confederate Secret Service
53:45 - UK blockade policy
59:20 - Confederate Signal Corps; encryption
1:03:00 - George "Lightning" Ellsworth, Rebel telegraph trickster
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