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100 1 $aBaker, La Fayette C.$q(La Fayette Curry),$d1826-1868.
245 10 $aHistory of the United States Secret Service /$cby L.C. Baker.
246 18 $aHistory of the Secret Service
246 1 $iHalf title:$aSecret Service
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bL.C. Baker,$c1867$e(Philadelphia :$fC.A. Alvord)
300 $a704 p., [16] leaves of plates :$bill., ports. ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $aGeneral Baker and the Bureau of Secret Service -- Origin of the Bureau of Detective Service -- Residence in Richmond -- Northern experiences as Confederate agent -- Treason and traitors at the North -- A Knight of the Golden Square -- Disloyalty among the postmasters --Frauds: disloyalty in Maryland -- Official services and embarrassments: new order of things -- An official visit to Manassas: the waste of war -- Frauds by government employees and others -- Stealing: smuggling liquors into the army -- Cards, treasures, female spy -- The Bureau in Canada, in the army -- Wealthy traitors: fruitless schemes -- Slavery, playing rebel general, First District Cavalry -- First District Cavalry -- The animus of secession -- English sympathy with the South: Negro hate in Washington -- Gigantic vices of the national capital -- Complaints against the Bureau -- Investigations in the Treasury Department -- Startling disclosures in the Treasury Department -- Unfounded charges: my own and the minority report -- A perilous adventure -- Cotton speculations -- Speculation and fraud -- Counterfeiters and counterfeiting -- A female adventurer -- The bounty jumpers -- The bounty jumpers and brokers -- Bounty jumping incidents -- Bounty jumpers in organized bands -- The great conspiracy -- The assassins captures -- The detective police and the arrest of the Assassins -- Letters on the assassination -- Final report of results: the case of Wirz -- Attempted suicide of Wirz -- The new president, ordered South, results -- Major and Mr. Cobb, pardons, indictments -- Resignation of commission -- The progress of the trail -- Closing scenes in court.
590 $aLincoln copy bound in cloth.
590 $aLincoln copy: Handwritten signature in pencil on flyleaf: Stephen T. Ganford.
600 10 $aBaker, La Fayette C.$q(La Fayette Curry),$d1826-1868.
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650 0 $aOfficial secrets$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aCriminal law$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSecret service.
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