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...resemblance ended there. Hines was a former Confederate cavalryman from Kentucky who had made a reputation with Morgan's Raiders. Cool, intelligent and apparently without fear, he had been assigned to espionage work by the Confederacy's Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin. In Confederate Agent, Author Horan tries to prove that Captain Hines was the mastermind of a gigantic plot to defeat the North from within. Hines's chief weapon: a vast, fifth-column army of Copperheads whose leaders Hines was to inspire and direct. That the plot did not work, says Horan, was no fault...
Fire & Rebellion. Author Horan is ,a somewhat heavy-handed writer whose researches almost always lead him to fascinating material. Previous books (on Jesse James, the Pinkerton detective agency) dealt with surefire subjects; but Tom Hines remains a shadowy figure right to the end of Confederate Agent. Nonetheless, it becomes apparent that he must have been a devil of a fellow, always hunted, sometimes caught, never held for keeps. He was only 23 when the Confederate government sent him to Canada with apparently unlimited funds. There he met with the top U.S. Copperheads, formed a "squadron" of Confederate saboteurs, and went...
...wife, began to study law in Canada while he waited until it was safe to go home. Later, in Bowling Green, he hung out his shingle and did so well that in 1875 he became chief justice of Kentucky's Court of Appeals. Hines died in 1898, Author Horan says, of a broken heart. His Nancy had died three weeks before...
Prescription. In Oakland, Calif., after receiving a postcard from her husband reading, "Are you upset? Are you nervous? Do you smoke too much? Try a California divorce for quick sedative action," Dr. Mary E. Horan...
Presidential Plot. The Reno escapades form the opening salvo in the drumfire of bandit tales Authors Horan and Swiggett have let loose in their history of Pinkerton's National ("We Never Sleep") Detective Agency. The Pinkerton Story reads too much like a collection of Sunday-supplement pieces, but the raw material survives anything writers...