Lincoln's Minister of Mystery: Henry Shelton Sanford and Civil War Intelligence

As Abraham Lincoln's unofficial "secret service" and intelligence chief based in Europe during the Civil War, Henry Shelton Sanford bought rifled guns, hired private detectives to spy on Confederate purchasing agents and developed a comprehensive intelligence network throughout Europe, providing the U.S. State Department with the data and insight necessary to allow Lincoln to have "one war at a time" and save the country. For the first time, Sanford's little-known life is revealed in this n...