| Description |
1 online resource (x, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages) |
| Contents |
I was the president's spy -- My old Kentucky home -- Oh, to be a minstrel! -- W. Alvin Lloyd, publisher -- Acolytes and accomplices -- Escape from New York -- The Memphis caper -- Of actresses and wives -- He said he would hang me -- Grave suspicions -- Shot down like a dog -- By order of President Jefferson Davis -- Leaving Dixie -- Anatomy of a fraud -- Lay of the last minstrel -- Post Lloyd ergo propter Lloyd |
| Summary |
History remembers William Alvin Lloyd as the subject of <span style=""font-style:italic;"">Totten vs. United States -which set precedent for espionage law-but was he a total fraud? <span style=""font-style:italic;""> Lincoln's Secret Spy is a high-spirited historical caper about a notorious scoundrel who may have been Abraham Lincoln's secret agent in the Confederacy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-296) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Lloyd, William Alvin, -1868.
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Lloyd, William Alvin, -1868 |
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Spies -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Spies -- United States -- Biography
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Secret service
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Spies
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Secret service.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stewart, John, 1952 March 5-
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| LC no. |
2020739384 |
| ISBN |
9781493017386 |
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1493017381 |
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