Pinkerton's War - The Civil Wars Greatest Spy and The Birth of the U.S Secret Service (Jay Bonansinga - SP) photo historians have been content to

historians have been content to view the Army of the Potomac primarily through the prism of its general officer corps

But Maine's role in the battle includes much more than that

filling the fields just south of Frederick

revealing how he managed the men who ran the naval side of the Civil War

all under enemy fire

Pinkerton's War - The Civil Wars Greatest Spy and The Birth of the U.S Secret Service (Jay Bonansinga - SP) photo historians have been content toby Jay Bonansinga A thrilling historical account of Allan Pinkertons pivotal role in the Civil War and the birth of the Secret Service Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton is best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which gained renown for solving train robberies in the 1850s and battling the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But the central drama of his career, and the focus of this book, was