The Army Detective by Colonel Oram Eflor
Price: $2.45
ePublished by
October 2020
Originally published August 27, 1886
Dime novel, Civil War
Author: Colonel Oram Eflor
ePublished by
October 2020
Originally published August 27, 1886
Dime novel, Civil War
Author: Colonel Oram Eflor
Number 207 in “The War Library: Original Stories of Adventure in the War for the Union,” a series of dime novels that are set in the midst of actual Civil War battles.
The Army Detective; or, Following a War Mystery: A Story of Secret Service Life during the Rebellion starts in the White House with an interview between the hero, a young Secret Service agent, and Abraham Lincoln; but the rest of the novel and most of the action takes place just outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the encampment of the besieging Union Army of the Tennessee under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, shortly before the surrender of the city by Confederate Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton in early July of 1863.
The victory at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, and the Confederate surrender of Vicksburg one day later on July 4th, together signalled the turning point in the Civil War; and the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.
The Army Detective; or, Following a War Mystery: A Story of Secret Service Life during the Rebellion starts in the White House with an interview between the hero, a young Secret Service agent, and Abraham Lincoln; but the rest of the novel and most of the action takes place just outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the encampment of the besieging Union Army of the Tennessee under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, shortly before the surrender of the city by Confederate Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton in early July of 1863.
The victory at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, and the Confederate surrender of Vicksburg one day later on July 4th, together signalled the turning point in the Civil War; and the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.