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The Pinks

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by Chris Enss


  Ryan, David D. A Yankee Spy in Richmond: The Civil War Diary of “Crazy Bet” Van Lew. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996.

  Silverstone, Paul H. Civil War Navies: 1855–1883. University Park, IL: US Navy Institute Press, 2000.

  Stack-Sappey, Maureen. Sculpting Lincoln: Letters from Vinnie. Calkins Creek, Pennsylvania: Calkins Creek Publishing, 2007.

  Stashower, Daniel. The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War: The Hour of Peril. New York: Minotaur Books, 2013.

  Thomas, Emory M. The Dogs of War. London, England: Oxford University Press, 2011.

  Trefousse, Han. Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1991.

  Varan, Elizabeth R. Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy. London, England: Oxford University Press, 2005.

  Ward, Geoffrey, Rick Burns, and Ken Burns. The Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990.

  Wilson, William B. History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Department of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Pennsylvania. London, England: Forgotten Books, 2016.

  ———. History of the Philadelphia Railroad Company. London, England: Forgotten Books, 1996.

  Winkler, H. Donald. Stealing Secrets: How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War. Naperville, IL: Cumberland House, 2010.

  Zeinert, Karen. Those Courageous Women of the Civil War. Minneapolis: Millbrook Press, 1998.

  Government Documents / Essays / Reports

  Chemung County Historical Society. Correspondence with Chemung County Historical Society and Rachel Dworkin, September 29, 2015.

  Chicago Historical Society. Correspondence from Mrs. Lewis Sawyer, Assistant Reference Librarian at Chicago Historical Society and Clark Wilcox, Elmira, New York, March 25, 1959.

  Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia Pamphlet, Allan Pinkerton, Volume 19, 1973.

  Graceland Cemetery Company. Correspondence from L. B. Gaberdiel at Chicago Historical Society and Clark Wilcox, Elmira, New York, March 10, 1959.

  Library of Congress Administration Files, 1857–1899, Re: Kate Warne; Boxes 23, 24, 25, 68–183.

  Library of Congress Files: McClellan Papers, July 22, 1861, July 25, 1861.

  Library of Congress Files, Re: Kate Warne, Assignments of Kate Warne, Superintendent of Female Department, Under Allan Pinkerton: (1) Murder of Mrs. Pattmore by her husband, Alonzo Pattmore at Greenville, Ohio.

  ———. (2) Theft of $50,000 from Adams Express Company at Montgomery, Alabama, by Nathan Maroney in 1858.

  National Archives, Intelligence in the Civil War, CIA Publication, 1953.

  ———. Letter from T. P. Turner, commanding Libby Prison, requesting that Van Lew stop providing meals for certain prisoners, RG 109, Ch. 9, Vol. 199 ½, February 15, 1863.

  ———. President-Elect Abraham Lincoln’s Address in Independence Hall, February 22, 1861.

  Official Civil War Records, January 30, 1864–February 5, 1864, Series 1, Vol. XXXIII, Dispatch from Elizabeth Van Lew to General Benjamin Butler.

  ———. Libby Prison Report, 1866.

  Reports of Committee of the Senate of the United States for the First and Second Session of the Forty-Sixth Congress, 1879–80. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

  Senate Report, No. 237, 40th Congress, February 9, 1880.

  Periodicals/Journals

  American Weekly Magazine, New York, New York, February 11, 1951.

  Ebony Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 4, Chicago, Illinois, February 1965.

  ———. Vol. 33, No. 12, Chicago, Illinois, October 1978.

  Harper’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, New York, New York, June 1868.

  ———.Vol. MCMXII New York, New York, June 1911.

  McClure’s Magazine, New York, New York, November 1894.

  The Rail Splitter: A Journal for the Lincoln Collector, Vol. 6, New York, New York, Fall 2000.

  Wall, Hannah. “Never to be Forgotten: The Tale of Women Spies During the Civil War,” Undergraduate Research Journal at UCCS Department of History, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Vol. 2.1 (Spring 2009).

  The Windsor Magazine, Vol. 7, London, England, 1898.

  Websites

  “African American Women Spies,” Civil War Women (civilwarwomenblog.com/african-american-women-spies/).

  “Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence during the Civil War,” Central Intelligence Agency (www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/black-dispatches/).

  “Civil War Submarine,” American Civil War Story (www.americancivilwarstory.com/civil-war-submarine.html).

  “The Confederate Sequestration Act,” Project Muse (muse.jhu.edu/article/205276).

  “CSS Virginia,” American Civil War Story (www.americancivilwarstory.com/tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/CSS_Virginia.html).

  “Dr. Mary E. Walker,” Association of the United States Army (www.ausa.org/dr-mary-e-walker).

  “The Express Companies,” Midcontinent.org (www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/dictionary/express_companies.htm).

  “Gideon Welles’ View of War,” HistoryNet (www.historynet.com/gideon-welles-view-of-war.htm).

  “History,” Congressional Medal of Honor Society (www.cmohs.org/medal-history.php).

  “A History of Women and Policing,” National Center for Women and Policing (womenandpolicing.com/history/historytext.htm).

  “Introducing Charles Rawn, His Journals, and Their Editors,” The Rawn Journals 1830–1865 (dauphincountyhistory.org/backups/rawn/about/).

  “Jane Maxwell Drysdale” (www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/jane-maxwell-drysdale_45857219).

  “Kate Warne and Women’s Security Careers Today,” Pinkerton (www.pinkerton.com/blog/kate-warne-women-security-careers-today).

  “Kate Warne, First Female Private Eye,” Thomas Investigative Publications (www.pimall.com/nais/pivintage/katewarne.html).

  “Kate Warne: The First ‘Pink Lady,’ ” The Pinkerton Detective Series . . . EXTRA (www.emillerbooks.com/Kate_Warne_The_First_Pink_Lady.html).

  “Kate Warne Never Sleeps,” Remarkable Travels (remarkable-travels.blogspot.com/2013/08/kate-warne-never-sleeps.html).

  “Kate Warne: Union Spy and First Female Private Investigator,” Civil War Women (civilwarwomenblog.com/kate-warne).

  “Mary Edwards Walker,” About North Georgia (www.aboutnorthgeorgia.com/ang/Mary_Edwards_Walker).

  “Mary Edwards Walker,” American Civil War.com (americancivilwar.com/women/mary_edwards_walker.html).

  “Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War Doctor,” St. Lawrence Branch of AAUW (stlawrence.aauw-nys.org/walker.htm).

  “Submarines in the Civil War,” The Civil War (www.navyandmarine.org/ondeck/1862submarines.htm).

  “Tredegar Iron Works,” National Park Service (www.nps.gov/nr/travel/richmond/Tredegar.html).

  Undersea Warfare Magazine, US Navy (www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/PDF/USW_Spring_2007.pdf).

  “US Secret Service History,” Secret Service (www.secretservice.gov/about/history/events).

  About the Author

  Chris Enss is a New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than a dozen years. She has penned more than thirty published books—including more than two dozen for TwoDot—many about some of the most famous names in history, film, and popular culture. Her book entitled Object Matrimony: The Risky Business of Mail Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier won the Elmer Kelton Award for best nonfiction book of 2013. Enss’s book Sam Sixkiller: Frontier Cherokee Lawman was named Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society. She received the Spirit of the West Alive award, cosponsored by
the Wild West Gazette, celebrating her efforts to keep the spirit of the Old West alive for future generations.

  Enss is also a scriptwriter and comedienne who has written for television and film, and performed on cruise ships and onstage. She has worked with award-winning musicians, writers, directors, and producers, and as a screenwriter for Tricor Entertainment. And she’s a licensed private detective.

 

 

 


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