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Espionage | Spying | Black Dispatches

"The typical Southern officer’s opinion of African Americans was that they were an inferior subhuman race, lacking in intelligence or cunning. Their ignorance and subsequent disregard of the slaves in their midst led to the most successful intelligence gathering of the Civil War." [warhistoryonline.com] Learn More

Jim Williams

James Forten (1766 – 1842)

Abraham H. Galloway (1837 – 1870)

John Scobell shooting a Confederate pursuer

William Jackson