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Spying in the Civil War

Confederate Spies in Washington Located 60 miles south of the Mason‑Dixon Line, Washington, D.C. was full of southern sympathizers when the Civil War broke out in 1861. Virginia’s Governor John Letcher, a former congressman, used his knowledge of the city to set up a nascent spy network in the capital in late April 1861, after […]

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