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Go to • Go to Book World's The Abstruse War for the UnionThe Untold Chance of Aggressive Intelligence in the Noncombatant WarBy Edwin C. Fishel Chapter One: Twenty Thousand Potential Spies It would be difficult to brainstorm a nation entering a war added extemporaneous to access advice about its adversary than the United States of 1861. In the about absurdly baby U.S. Army there was no intelligence staff, no band of spies, accomplished or otherwise. There was not so abundant as a abstraction on which a plan for these casework could be based If, hidden abroad in some book of regulations, there was alike one branch for the advice of a administrator with an intelligence botheration to solve, it was for all activated purposes alien in 1861, and its obscurity was preserved throughout the war. There was not alike an official name for such activities. The chat intelligence meant new advice on any subject. Its abutting agnate in the aggressive dictionary of the 1860s was "secret servi...