• The Confederate Secret Service refers to any of a number of official and semi-official secret service organizations and operations performed by the Confederate...
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  • States Secret Service, a federal law enforcement agency tasked with investigative and protective responsibilities Confederate Secret Service, a number...
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    The United States Secret Service (USSS or Secret Service) is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security tasked with conducting...
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    Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College) and served in the Confederate Secret Service during the Civil War. Conrad was born on August 1, 1837, to Nelson...
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  • and intercepts, but it also included a covert agency called the Confederate Secret Service Bureau, which ran espionage and counter-espionage operations in...
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    delegation to Canada, where he appears to have been leader of the Confederate Secret Service. From here, he is known to have organised many anti-Union plots...
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    filled with explosives and covered in coal dust, deployed by the Confederate Secret Service during the American Civil War, and intended for doing harm to...
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    John Surratt (category Confederate States Army soldiers)
    the postmaster for Surrattsville, Maryland. Surratt served as a Confederate Secret Service courier and spy. After he had been carrying dispatches about Union...
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  • A., James O. Hall, and David W. Gaddy. Come Retribution: The Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Jackson, Mississippi:...
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    Lewis Powell (conspirator) (category Confederate States Army soldiers)
    Gettysburg, he later served in Mosby's Rangers before working with the Confederate Secret Service in Maryland. John Wilkes Booth recruited him into a plot to kidnap...
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  • between the Union and Confederate Secret Services deals with the conspiracy as a major arc of the plot. Confederate Secret Service New York in the American...
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  • headquarters for Confederate Secret Service activities. On 7 December 1863, while the new Union tug Chesapeake was preparing for service in the South Atlantic...
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    construction of CSS Alabama in a British shipyard, and tolerance of Confederate Secret Service activities in the UK and its Canadian and Bahamian colonies. There...
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    actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland; though he never joined the Confederate army, he had contacts with the Confederate secret service. After attending...
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    clandestine Confederate activity. He spent ten days in the city, staying for a time at St. Lawrence Hall, a rendezvous for the Confederate Secret Service, and...
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    grandson of Thomas Peter, a former U.S. Civil War captain with the Confederate Secret Service, and a post U.S. Civil War soldier under the Khedive of Egypt...
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    Confederate States, also known as Confederate forces or the Confederate Armed Forces and Confederate States Armed Forces, were the military services responsible...
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    New Virginia Colony (category Confederate expatriates)
    Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury. Because of his work for the Confederate Secret Service, Maury was unable to return home to Virginia. Maury, as an internationally...
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    and a Confederate sympathizer from Maryland; though he never joined the Confederate Army, he had contacts within the Confederate Secret Service. In 1864...
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    an accident had actually been an act of sabotage by the Confederates. Confederate Secret Service agent John Maxwell had smuggled a time bomb aboard the...
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  • service support Combat sidestroke, a swimming stroke used by Navy SEALs Confederate Secret Service, the secret service operations of the Confederate States...
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    has media related to Time bombs. Grady, John (August 15, 2014). "The Confederate Torpedo". New York Times. New York Times. Retrieved 1 September 2015...
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    and embraced civil service reform." Grant lowered customs duties, gave amnesty to Confederates, and implemented a civil service merit system, neutralizing...
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    and intercepts, but it also included a covert agency called the Confederate Secret Service Bureau, which ran espionage and counter-espionage operations in...
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    Battlefield: Geologic resources inventory report (Report). National Park Service. Confederate States of America Documents Texts of the Ordinances Texts of declarations...
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    The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate army or the Southern army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America...
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    his kidnapping plot and was directed to Mudd by agents of the Confederate Secret Service. In December, Booth again met with Mudd and spent the night at...
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    Scottish-built merchant ship originally called the Sea King, it was secretly purchased by Confederate agents in September 1864. Captain James Waddell renamed the...
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    supplies, Confederate Navy commerce raiders built from British shipyards (e.g., CSS Alabama), and British tolerance of Confederate Secret Service activities...
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    mass escape, but their efforts were nearly useless in the tumult. As Confederate troops raced to the scene, the steamboats took off toward Beaufort with...
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