Part 2

FILE IX

General Wallace assumes command of the Middle Department--General Schenck's comments on Maryland--Colonel Woolley 79

FILE X

Here begins my service as an Assistant Provost Marshal of the Department and Chief of the Secret Service--Confederate General Winder's detectives--E. H. Smith, special officer, War Department --Mrs. Mary E. Sawyer, Confederate mail carrier--W. V. Kremer's report on the "Disloyals" north of Baltimore 83

FILE XI

Mrs. Key Howard, a lineal descendant of the author of "The Star Spangled Banner," forgetting her honor, prepared to carry a Confederate mail to "Dixie"--Miss Martha Dungan--Trip on the steam tug "Ella"--Schooner "W. H. Travers" and cargo captured--James A. Winn, a spy--Trip to Frederick, Maryland 92

FILE XII

F. M. Ellis, Chief Detective U. S. Sanitary Commission--Arrest of W. W. Shore, of the New York "World"--John Gillock from Richmond 100

FILE XIII

Ordered to seize all copies of the New York "World," bringing in one of the great war episodes, the Bogus Presidential Proclamation-- Governor Seymour's queer vigor appears 103

FILE XIV

Arrest of F. W. Farlin and A. H. Covert--The Pulpit not loyal, reports on Rev. Mr. Harrison and Rev. Mr. Poisal--Comical reports on a religious conference and a camp meeting--Seizure of Kelly & Piet store with its contraband kindergarten contents--Sloop "R. B. Tennis" one of my fleet, and an account of a capture of tobacco, etc.--Arrest of Frederick Smith, Powell Harrison and Robert Alexander--Harry Brogden 109

FILE XV

General pass for Schooner "W. H. Travers"--Trip down the Bay after blockade runners and mail carriers--Gillock and Lewis, two of my officers captured by Union pickets--Commodore Foxhall A. Parker-- Potomac flotilla--Arrest of J. B. McWilliams--My watch gone to the mermaids--The ignorance of "poor white trash" 121

FILE XVI

Captain Bailey makes a capture--Sinclair introduces me (as Shaffer) to Mr. Pyle 132

FILE XVII

A Confederate letter 136

FILE XVIII

Confederate army invades Maryland in 1864--General Wallace's masterly defence of Washington--Trip outside our pickets--Confederate General Bradley Johnson and Colonel Harry Gilmor--The Ishmael Day episode-- Uncle Zoe--Arrest of Judge Richard Grason--Report on certain "Disloyals" 138

FILE XIX

Trip to New York regarding one Thomas H. Gordon 149

FILE XX

Thomas Bennett, a U. S. mail carrier, disloyal--Samuel Miles, a prominent Baltimore merchant, a blockade runner--A laughable letter about an overdraft of whiskey--Dr. E. Powell, of Richmond 151

FILE XXI

Terrence R. Quinn 155

FILE XXII

The Great Fraud attempted in the Presidential Election of 1864, wherein the misplacing of a single letter led to its detection and may be said to have saved our Nation from disruption--Involving Governor Seymour and Adjutant General Andrews--Arrest of Ferry, Donohue and Newcomb, one of the most successful kidnappings on record 159