DUTY AND DISHONOR – THE CONFEDERATE DETECTIVE SERVICE

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Hundley, Ransom N.  2022.  Softcover, 131 pages. 6”X9”.

This book represents a previously unpublished study by which we attempt to evaluate the legacies of Confederate Detectives Theodore Woodall and Philip Cashmeyer, as they struggled in the performance of their duties in the American Civil War. Primarily, the work is a compilation of documents and selections gleaned from digitally restored antebellum newspapers, with a confirming reference coming from the “Citizens File” of the National Archives.

Following the Pratt Street Riots in Baltimore on April 19, 1861, with Federal warrants for their arrests, Cashmeyer and Woodall fled to Richmond to seek refuge in the Confederate States of America.

Philip Cashmeyer enlisted as a Provost Corps detective in April 1861 and remained loyal to his sworn oath for the four arduous years of the Confederate bid for independence. When the war ended in the failure of his cause, the prominent officer paid a heavy price for his loyalty, and especially for the state secrets he harbored.

Theodore Woodall also enlisted as a Confederate Provost Detective in April of 1861, worked the trade according to the duties expected of him for more than eighteen months, but desperate for money to support his wife and family back in Baltimore, committed crimes of extortion and bribery. When a Confederate warrant was issued for his arrest, Woodall deserted to the North, and traded State Secrets for amnesty and an unknown amount of Yankee “greenbacks.”

He became a “galvanized” United States Secret Service Agent and eventually returned to Richmond as a spy where he was reinstated as a Confederate Detective. Once again, he deserted to become Colonel Lafayette Baker’s most trusted agent. In an almost inconceivable reversal of loyalties, he was assigned to the pursuit of Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth and played a significant role in the kill and capture of the fugitives.

There is no fiction in these pages, just the unvarnished adventures of two desperate men caught in a political tangle with no way out.    [LD] [PH:L]

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