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This episode surveys Civil War intelligence-gathering and espionage on the Confederate side. We look at the cavalry's role, the Confederate Signal Corps and Secret Service, and introduce a few Rebel spy stories. Part 2 will examine some of the best-known Confederate spies and a few of the strange operations pursued by the Rebel Secret Service.

In this Episode:

12:10 - Jedidiah Hotchkiss, Shenandoah Valley Cartographer

16:30 - Confederate spy Antonia Ford

21:30 - Union General Grenville Dodge, Grant's spy master

24:00 - Sam Davis, the South's Nathan Hale

29:45 - Will Talbot, Virginia cavalryman caught spying in Maryland

31:10 - Frank Stringfellow, top-gun Confederate spy

41:30 - The Iron Scouts and the Beefsteak Raid

47:00 - Confederate Secret Service

53:45 - UK blockade policy

59:20 - Confederate Signal Corps; encryption

1:03:00 - George "Lightning" Ellsworth, Rebel telegraph trickster

Email the show at CivilWarPodcast@protonmail.com. Thanks for listening!

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