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Come retribution : the Confederate secret service and the assassination of Lincoln
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- Creator
- William A. Tidwell with James O. Hall and David Winfred Gaddy
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©1988
- Physical Details
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- xv, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0878053476, 9780878053476, 0878053484, 9780878053483
- OCLC
- ocm17549337
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: The Logic Trail -- The Confederate Intelligence Machinery -- The Intelligence Problems of the Confederacy -- The Virginia Connection -- The Secret Signal Corps -- Tactical Intelligence in the Army of Northern Virginia -- Prisoners of War and the Protection of Richmond -- Partisans and Irregular Warfare -- The "Department of Dirty Tricks" and the Secret Service -- Confederate Operations in Canada -- The Beginnings of Central Intelligence -- Using the Machinery against President Lincoln -- Portents -- Dahlgren's Raid and Its Aftermath -- Enter John Wilkes Booth -- A Desperate Plan to Win the War--No Holds Barred -- Development of a Plan -- Organization in Virginia -- The Action Team -- Come Retribution -- Complication and Frustration -- Countdown -- Getting Away -- The Final Curtain -- Paroled at Ashland