Dangerous, exhilarating, intoxicating are all words that describe the life of the spies I am talking about. while we study about the civil war period for an extensive period of time, and talk about many major events and individuals like the soldier, medicine, and the wars. The one things that we often forget about are the people that worked behind the scene like many spies, but never get mentioned in classes or even books like the ones we are currently reading called, “The Great Struggle”. For this prompt, I would try to highlight some of the most famous spies from the union sides that helped in a major way during the war and have been forgotten throughout history.
Lafayette Baker is a name you might not have to hear about. As a young man he went to California to try his …show more content…
When the word reached west about the civil war, he immediately packed up and moved back east to try to a position in the union army. While the record does not indicate how he got an interview with the commanding General Winfield Scott he did it. As for Scott, he liked young men who had some fighting spirit behind them and Baker was the man for that job. As his first job, he was supposed to go behind enemy lines as a spy and try to get as much information as possible. While he failed three times at this job, he never quit and got the job done. He was given countless another jobs such as spying and gathering information about the south military. Where he again was captured and even interrogated by Jefferson Davis, but was cleared of all charges and escaped to the Potomac river where he gained the trust of the conferedy military by faking to be a landowner. Even General Scott once described him as a devious and
Lafayette Baker is a name you might not have to hear about. As a young man he went to California to try his …show more content…
When the word reached west about the civil war, he immediately packed up and moved back east to try to a position in the union army. While the record does not indicate how he got an interview with the commanding General Winfield Scott he did it. As for Scott, he liked young men who had some fighting spirit behind them and Baker was the man for that job. As his first job, he was supposed to go behind enemy lines as a spy and try to get as much information as possible. While he failed three times at this job, he never quit and got the job done. He was given countless another jobs such as spying and gathering information about the south military. Where he again was captured and even interrogated by Jefferson Davis, but was cleared of all charges and escaped to the Potomac river where he gained the trust of the conferedy military by faking to be a landowner. Even General Scott once described him as a devious and