Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After

by Henry Bascom Smith

I presume my order to go to New York (following) may have hastened my disposition of Paine.

FILE XXXVII.

Missionary E. Martin, an agent of the Confederate treasury department, arrested, his big tobacco smuggling scheme exposed—Kidnapped him from General Dix's department—Manahan involved.

Headquarters, Middle Department,
8th Army Corps.
Baltimore, Mch. 12, 1865.

Special Order No. 44.

Lieut. H. B. Smith, 5th N. Y. Arty., and Commanding Detective Corps, 8th Army Corps, with one man of his force, will proceed to New York City, arrest a certain man, and return to these headquarters without delay, with his assistant and prisoner.

Quartermaster's Department will furnish transportation.

By command of Bvt. Brigadier General W. W. Morris.

Wm. H. Wiegel,
Major & Actg. Provost Marshal.

The cause for this trip will be explained by the following copy of a letter, and a contract.