Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After

by Henry Bascom Smith

By command of Major General Humphreys.

John Woolley,
Lt. Col. & Pro. Mar. General.

Headquarters,
Middle Military Department,
Office Provost Marshal General,
Baltimore, Sept. 20, 1865.

Special Order No. 116.

IInd. H. B. Smith, Chief of Detective Corps, Middle Military Department, and one man as guard, will proceed to Washington, D. C., in charge of the following-named horse thieves:

Michael Shea and H. J. Hoffman. On arrival he will deliver the prisoners with accompanying paper to Colonel T. Ingraham, Provost Marshal General, Defences of Potomac, receive receipt and report at these headquarters without delay.

Quartermaster's Department will furnish transportation.

By command of Major General Hancock.

John Woolley,
Lt. Col. & Pro. Mar. Gen'l.

Horse stealing was much in fashion at this time.