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Item Detectives and Spies: U.S. Army Espionage in the Old Northwest during the Civil War(2014-02) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item The Persistent Nullifier: the Life of Civil War Conspirator Lambdin P. Milligan(2013-12) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item Quelling the Camp Douglas Conspiracies(Chicago History Museum, 2015-12) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-During the American Civil War, U.S. Army detectives spied on Confederate agents in Chicago and the Midwest who aimed, in collaboration with Northern sympathizers, to subvert the federal government. In 1864, army detectives and spies succeeded in infiltrating plots to release Confederate prisoners-of-war held in Camp Douglas, near Chicago. Military commanders broke up the plots, arrested some of the leaders, and tried them by military commission.Item The Spymaster: General Henry B. Carrington(Indiana Historical Society Press, 2016-08) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-Item "These Scoundrels Stand in No Fear of the Civil Courts; They Do, of the Military:" The Decision to Use Military Commissions to Try the Indiana Conspirators in 1864(University Press of Kansas, 2020) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-The decision to employ military commissions to try conspirators in Indiana in 1864 was more complicated than historians have previously understood. Many persons contributed over a long period, but President Abraham Lincoln made the decision based on his calculations about his chances of being reelected. Fearing that he would lose the fall election, Lincoln took the expedient step to try conspirators by military commission.