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Intelligence: The Secret War Within America’s Civil War

By Eric Either | Civil War Times  | one comment  | Print This Post  | Email This Post

Of course, intelligence meant nothing if it was not used in a timely manner, a fact that was illustrated at Fredericksburg on the morning of December 13, 1862. Hours before that Federal disaster, a captured Rebel offered Hooker (then in corps command) and Maj. Gen. Edwin Sumner “full information of the position and defenses of the enemy.” Ambrose Burnside, the army’s commander, chose not to change his battle plan—and the rest is history.

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  1. One Comment to “Intelligence: The Secret War Within America’s Civil War”

  2. Spied your article at:

    http://www.historynet.com/intelligence-the-secret-war-within-americas-civil-war.htm

    … while aloft on Cyber glass watch this morning.

    Perhaps you might be interested in knowing more about the military intelligence underworld of the 1860’s.

    http://www.civilwarsignals.org

    By Walt on Aug 10, 2009 at 7:47 am

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