E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Barbara Kosker, Irma Spehar, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24541-h.htm or 24541-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/5/4/24541/24541-h/24541-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/5/4/24541/24541-h.zip) +--------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | | A list of illustrations is provided for the reader's | | benefit. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------+ BETWEEN THE LINES Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by BVT. MAJOR H. B. SMITH Chief of Detectives and Assistant Provost Marshal General with Major General Lew Wallace Civil War [Illustration: H. B. SMITH.] Booz Brothers 114 West Fifty-Third Street New York Copyright, 1911, by Henry Bascom Smith Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co. New York DEDICATED TO SAMUEL GRAHAM BOOZ TO WHOSE PERSISTENCY IN THUMPING OUT ON HIS TYPEWRITER THE WORDS HEREIN HAS RENDERED IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO INFLICT MY FIFTY-YEAR-OLD STORIES ON MY FRIENDS CONTENTS PAGE APOLOGY 17 FILE I The Harry Gilmor Sword--General Wallace's Comments 21 FILE II 1861-1862 New York Harbor--Fort Schuyler--Fort Marshal--Aunt Mag 25 FILE III 1862-1863 Fort McHenry--General Morris--Colonel Peter A. Porter-- Harper's Ferry--Halltown--Trip to Johnson's Island--Lieutenant-General Pemberton and other Confederate Officers--Ohio Copperheads--Incident of York, Pa., Copperheads--Dramatic incident on July 4th, 1863, at Fort McHenry 30 FILE IV