Lincoln's Informer postcard the agency’s reputation was so

the agency’s reputation was so well established that it was often hired by the government to perform many of the same duties today assigned to the Secret Service

to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek

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and dreams of war glided through the minds of Americans in both the North and South

did much to define the character of the war and affect its length

Lincoln's Informer postcard the agency’s reputation was soLincoln's Informer: Charles A. Dana and the Inside Story of the Union War Carl J. Guarneri Winner: Albert Castel Book Award In a recent poll of leading historians, Charles A. Dana was named among the Twenty Five Most Influential Civil War Figures Youve Probably Never Heard Of. If you have heard of Dana, it was probably from his classic Recollections of the Civil War (1898), which was ghostwritten by muckraker Ida Tarbell and riddled with errors cited