In The Shadows: Spies, Raiders, and Intelligence Gathering in the American Civil War

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During the American Civil War, great drama was not exclusive to just the battlefield. There were many instances when what took place behind the lines, or behind enemy lines, was just as engaging and significant.
Those instances bring life to the men and women who operated in the shadows, who dared to infiltrate and risk all in the process.
These are the stories of selected spies, raiders, and military analysts.
#civilwar #civilwarhistory #spies
Narrated by Fred Kiger
Produced by Dan Irving
Published by Third Wheel Media
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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Allan Pinkerton
Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Belle Boyd
William Norris
Bennett Young
Grenville M. Dodge
Elizabeth Van Lew
James J. Andrews
John C. Babcock

[@cobaltross9059]

Schools need professors with the speaking skills of this narrator. Unbelievably engaging.

[@WMusick]

This narrator puts our noses right into the mix. He is awesome!

[@niteshades_promise]

Both sides led by men belonging to the same fraternity🤐🍻

[@jerichostevens2711]

This has become one of my favorite history channels. Thanks from North Carolina.

[@WMusick]

dittos from Oregon!

[@gregbrunnhuber9291]

Why are people publicly proud of a family heritage of public bigotry and repression …

[@gillgetter3004]

I’ve heard it said that spying is the worlds second oldest occupation 😊

[@bunk95]

Spying is fictional. The fiction is used to market behavior outside of fiction.

[@nunyanunya4147]

'loose 'lips' sink ships'

[@peterj5106]

I've heard it said that one in the bush is as good as 2 in the hand?? Wtf??

[@LucaAugment]

prostitution and murder

[@FryingTiger]

There will be all kinds of chaos and intrigue during Civil War 2.0.

[@GeorgeDoughty-m8e]

Much of that will cyber-intelligence and disinformation.

[@jeffzeiler346]

👍

[@WMusick]

And I want to be a spy for MAGA!

[@benspires956]

Love your writing and narration! So entertaining

[@BabyHomeslicer]

Thank you for all the work you do, history is best told by its story.

[@peterj5106]

Hallo. Did you have a good time in the toilet 🚽🚽😉. I have received a message on WhatsApp from my inside man and I was thinking that you could maybe bench press Mr Hanky? Aka....the Xmas poo 💩💩.

[@carolinadog8634]

Great info you don’t get to hear very often!

[@DougA-e5w]

Anybody else see the irony of the woman who betrayed her country drowning because she had to much gold on her person

[@kevinlawler3252]

I only now found this channel, I look forward to seeing more from you. It would be an understatement to say i love history.. and spend as much of my freed time as I can reading and researching it.. all aspects. I many ancestors who played assorted roles throughout American history, one is the battle of Cornwallis at the end of the Revolutionary War… a multiple great grandfather of my surname fought and guarded the defeated English after the battle. Many grandfathers and others who fought in the Civil War and every war or conflict America would have. We live in troubling times and are witness to blatant sabotage and tyranny by our own, prepare accordingly and be certain to prepare your sons.

[@jeffzeiler346]

Amen.

[@davidjohnson6611]

Outstanding video I will take a little exception to your degrading of Alan Pinkerton McClellan also had a habit overestimating forces against him and I'm quite certain it wasn't just from pinkerton's faulty Intel. Pinkerton was essentially the first FBI he was also the first to profile crimes and criminals throughout the United States and kept a rudimentary database about that and perhaps it could could also be said that he was the founder of both the CIA and Secret Service all that being said I love your work

[@carywest9256]

Wild Bill Donavan was the brains behind CIA formally the OSS ,before and during WWII.

[@bunk95]

Detectives are fictional.

[@jimburow706]

Pinkerton was also paid muscle for the rich railroad and mining tycoons and sent thugs to kill mine and railroad workers for his wealthy handlers. He was scum

[@Winters_Folly]

Deductive reasoning to hard to grasp?​@@bunk95

[@peterj5106]

I've heard it said that he liked the bum holes 🕳️🕳️.Of The back bottom type. I've heard it said that he one proclaimed that there wasn't a bacon 🥓 sandwich 🥪😋😋 back bottom bumhole he couldn't sniff out at 1000 paces & he always knew whether someone had one or not. 💪🤬

[@DonaldKDever]

Proud southern here also. Mississippi

[@baystateplugflipper7061]

Very well done sir!!

[@GunDrummer]

Best channel

[@mistervacation23]

One can only imagine what Rose Greenhow was doing with these Men Behind Closed Doors

[@strydershadow391]

So many great stories in this video and amazing details. Great job.

[@klimismistakidis1482]

Love your channel ❤. This video also was wonderful to watch.

[@uwantsun]

Excellent presentation. Thank you.

[@warrenatchley1921]

Related to common soldiers of both sides.

[@johnhale4180]

My GGF rode with Bennet Young During John Hunt Morgan's Ohio raid; In Camp Douglas etc. Young escaped to Europe College there, long career in Louisville.

[@tobinfrost3668]

Little Mac wanted to believe it Pinkerton gave him the reason to

[@GHYT-t3x]

Wonderful Content! Love the voiceovers and wonderful stories.

[@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry]

Thank you for the kind words Grady! We appreciate the support.

[@meeeka]

I grew up hearing, listening to my grandma's stories of the war. She heard them from her Papa, who inherited his late fathers plantation lands from his father who was executed by Yankees, for mistreating his "people" ( read: slaves) and her mother and grandma who had crazy scary tales of just staying home during the war. My great grandma told me her stories too, just not as long as my grandma could; grandma lived to be 100 in 2004. I was always proud of our "southern ness" but as my father is from Ethiopia, it's always been a bit incongruent to others.

[@brianprice2665]

Thank you.

[@eddrake9542]

I appreciate how you slow down and enunciate the names of principle players

[@Onatyrade]

next to micro-bikini try on hauls this is my favorite channel

[@vanillagorilla2545]

What happened to the wizard of the saddle you guys are the best

[@HistoricalEcho558]

You yankees don't tell a bad story.

[@WhoGitDaBiscuit]

Full figure. Big boned? 🤪

[@janeceeastwood8035]

A pathway to somewhere is pronounced “route”, sounds like “root”. A one-sided battle is pronounced “rout”, sounds like out with an “R” in front. As an historian, it should be important to get this right.

[@lindaaumiller174]

I'm a fan of your threads.

[@NormsJeanMorrissey]

I thoroughly enjoy this speaker. I listen to all his lectures. Norma Jean M

[@murrayscott9546]

Born I am Canadian. Ìm destitute so Ì can't support your efforts. I aprexiate your work

[@Unknown31212]

Your narration reminds me of Dan Carlin, if you dont mind, what microphone are you using, audio is crisp.

[@sterlingferguson1704]

Great information.

[@RailfanDownunder]

Superb work Sir 😊

[@parkermcdougal6729]

Great narration

[@douglasalderman9031]

Threads and unauthorized history of the pacific war are the best

[@johnnymitnick]

Narrator do you have a thick maryland accent or am I tripping??

[@murrayscott9546]

Do you have t brand of signaling back to the USA ?

[@combatbattalion6]

Bell Boyd had the letter from hateful eight 😂😂😂

[@bethbartlett5692]

Who is in the photo, Standing Center, @ 18:17?

[@peterj5106]

Me.

[@lisabochette9678]

My great great ect grandfather was Robert E Lee and I'm also related to Richard Henry Lee, I currently live on historic land near a major furnace that stone man raided that caused Lee to surrender!

[@bhoran1152]

👍

[@gabenichols5533]

What part of Maryland are you from lol

[@murrayscott9546]

Goddam Pinkertonn's !

[@lisabochette9678]

My great great ect grandfather was Robert E Lee and I'm also related to Richard Henry Lee, I currently live on historic land near a major furnace that stone man raided that caused Lee to surrender!

[@davidspencer6384]

That was superb

[@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry]

Thank you!

[@murrayscott9546]

Ups , to her.

[@justinmiller7173]

It’s the war of northern aggression or the war between the states sir

[@lisabochette9678]

My great great ect grandfather was Robert E Lee and I'm also related to Richard Henry Lee, I currently live on historic land near a major furnace that stone man raided that caused Lee to surrender!

[@danielpuckett7792]

Thanks!

[@ThreadsfromtheNationalTapestry]

Thank you for the support. Happy Holidays!

[@nanouli6511]

Proud decendant of a Confederate Soldier here.

[@carywest9256]

I too, both Mothers grandfather was in 15th.Texas Inf. Co. F and Fathers great grandfather was in 12 Texas Cavalry Co.E. DEO VINDICE

[@murrayscott9546]

Hey, Civilly Wats, are the worst. Let us bury the hatchet. Otherwise, there are now winners.

[@Surri5809]

Lol stay in the south too both of you

[@Surri5809]

How about you assholes get that border down there taking care of what you waiting for?

[@WackoFromWaco]

​@samuelrock5809 it's you people that are coming south no one here is interested in your San Francisco's and Chicagos

[@travispayne7086]

Military analysts? ...really? Military analyst is a contemporary new school occupation - in which I must say means next to nothing to me. Eight or so years ago this posting did not say a thing about a thing called a military analyst. This field is doomed to failure if this nation is dependent on todays "I do t get my hands dirty and I read it in a book in a university classroom" generation.

[@kevinsysyn4487]

Like this video.... But why didn't Meade pursue and annihilate Lee at Gettysburg as he retreated in complete disarray and was trapped 6 days by the flooded river. As Lincoln said Meade could have closed the war and now it would go on for years, and it did.

[@joycefranklin8981]

There were so many other factors that figured into Meade's decision. It wasn't as straight forward as it seems. I think Lincoln realized that after his initial reaction.

[@cammacgregor9354]

The overly dramatic narration detracts from an otherwise excellent presentation.

[@ralphdougherty1844]

My 5X great grandfather was a raider with the 47th Virginia Mounted Infantry in what became West Virginia. He was captured in May of 1863 and died in a prisoner of war camp near Philidelphia in August. He wrote a letter to the commander of the VIII Corps protesting that others were being exchanged and not him as he was being held as a spy.

[@alanmoffat4454]

WELL IF THIS IS CORRECT HOW DO YOUS MAKE SO MANY MISTAKES TODAY , NOT LEARNING VERY WELL .😮😊

[@davem5308]

Can't listen to this narrator, he is terrible. Who deluded him that he should narrate anything? Chill out man!

[@BobbyLavare-kl1zi]

What are Union Soldiers went through,them stinking Rebels

[@scottjunge5992]

😂