Confederate Intelligence and Espionage, Part 1

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 [email protected]. Thanks for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices