Confederate Agent: A Discovery In History
- ISBN-10
- 1786257092
- ISBN-13
- 9781786257093
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 363
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-11-06
- Publisher
- Pickle Partners Publishing
- Author
- James D. Horan
Description
With never-before published contemporary photographs, facsimile documents and other illustrations... The true story of the conspiracy that came close to destroying the Union from within, getting Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to join the Confederacy while New York City was in flames. Chicago was ready for rebellion, 100,000 Northern Confederates stood ready to strike. Based on official papers hitherto suppressed by the U.S. War Dept.—the secret and unpublished diaries of Capt. Thomas H. Hines, C.S.A., official agent of the Confederate government and mastermind of its underground.— Print Ed.
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