Double Death: The True Story of Pryce Lewis, the Civil War's Most Daring Spy Book

Contents

Author's Note....................ix
Acknowledgments....................xi
Prologue "There Goes a Big Slide of Snow"....................1
Chapter 1 "Little Molehills from the Green Sea"....................4
Chapter 2 "A Detective! Me?"....................10
Chapter 3 "Murdered in the Most Shocking Manner"....................17
Chapter 4 "A Plan Had Been Laid for My Assassination"....................24
Chapter 5 "Set a Price on Every Rebel Head and Hang Them"....................33
Chapter 6 "An English Nobleman Travelling for Pleasure"....................39
Chapter 7 "Don't You Know There Is a War in This Country, Sir?"....................50
Chapter 8 "Grossly Insulting to Some of the Officers"....................59
Chapter 9 "I See You Are a Stranger in These Parts"....................67
Chapter 10 "Do You Mean to Say That You Have Been in Wise's Camp?"....................77
Chapter 11 "That Is Tim Webster"....................39
Chapter 12 "The Most Persuasive Woman That Was Ever Known in Washington"....................98
Chapter 13 "You'll Have to Be Mighty Careful Now, or You'll Be Arrested"....................109
Chapter 14 "It Would Be Folly for Me to Go to Richmond"....................116
Chapter 15 "He Is a Noble Fellow, a Most Valuable Man to Us"....................125
Chapter 16 "I Suspected You All Along"....................141
Chapter 17 "Trust for a Favorable Outcome"....................151
Chapter 18 "We Have All Your Companions"....................155
Chapter 19 "Hanged by the Necks Until We Were Dead"....................160
Chapter 20 "Keep Your Courage Up"....................165
Chapter 21 "I Have Made a Full Statement and Confessed Every....................176
Chapter 22 "I Suffer a Double Death"....................183
Chapter 23 "It Was Not War, It Was Murder"....................191
Chapter 24 "They Held Existence by a Frail Tenure"....................201
Chapter 25 "Lewis Remained Staunch, and Did Not Confess"....................218
Epilogue "A Faithful Servant to His Country"....................238
Appendix The Baltimore Plot....................243
Appendix The Trial....................247
Appendix Pinkerton's Military Espionage....................251
Notes....................255
Index....................273