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<p>After an elderly man jumped from New York's Pulitzer Building in 1911, his death made the front page of the <i>New York Times</i>: "World Dome Suicide a Famous War Spy." By then Pryce Lewis had slipped entirely offstage; but, as Gavin Mortimer reveals, the headline did him justice, speaking to the dramatic, vitally important, and until now untold role he had played in the Civil War.</p> <p>Emigrating to the United States in 1856, Lewis was soon employed as an operative by Allan Pinkerton in his newly established detective agency. Early in the Civil War Pinkerton offered the agency to President Lincoln as a secret service, spying on Southern forces and insurrectionists. Civilian spies proved crucial to both sides early on; indeed, intelligence gathered by Lewis helped give the Union army its first victory, three days after the defeat at Bull Run. Within a year, though, he and fellow Brit Timothy Webster, another Pinkerton operative, were captured in Richmond, and their high-profile trial and conviction in a Confederate court changed the course of wartime espionage. Lewis was spared the hangman's noose, but Webster was executed, and thereafter spying was left to military personnel

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Author

Mortimer, Gavin

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802717696

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

3.52 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14