TRAITORS, SPIES, AND SECRET AGENTS
True Stories of the Men and Women Who Fought America's Secret Civil War
The history books remember the battles. They forgot the war behind the war.
Traitors, Spies, and Secret Agents brings together twenty gripping true stories from the shadow war that ran alongside America's bloodiest conflict — the spy rings, the double agents, the couriers, and the ordinary men and women who fought the Civil War from the inside. Drawn from declassified War Department records and firsthand memoirs, these stories are dangerous, surprising, and impossible to put down.
No textbook heroism. No battlefield glory. Just the untold truth about the people who shaped the Civil War from the shadows.
Inside you'll discover:
How Rose O'Neal Greenhow ran a Confederate spy ring blocks from the White House and helped win the First Battle of Bull Run
How Harriet Tubman led intelligence missions behind Confederate lines that freed more than 700 enslaved people in a single night
How Elizabeth Van Lew built the most sophisticated Union spy network inside the Confederate capital while hiding in plain sight
How the intelligence failures of an entire war converged at Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865
Whether you're a lifelong Civil War reader or just discovering the hidden side of American history, Traitors, Spies, and Secret Agents delivers the stories that never made it into the textbooks — and the operatives history forgot to name.
Book 2 of the Shadow Wars Series.
The Civil War you thought you knew had a shadow. This book is about the shadow.
Sneak a Peek (History Like You've Never Read It)
Curious what's inside? Here's a glimpse of what Traitors, Spies, and Secret Agents delivers — declassified secrets, untold heroism, and true stories of ordinary Americans who fought an extraordinary secret war while the cannons roared around them.
This isn't about generals and battlefields. It's about the spy rings, the double agents, and the intelligence operatives who shaped the Civil War from the shadows — and whose names never made it into the history books.
Warning: May cause a sudden obsession with Civil War history, the unsettling realization that everything you learned in school left out the most interesting parts, and an urgent need to read the next book in the series.