MEMOIRS
—OF THE—
UNITED STATES
SECRET SERVICE.
[COMPILED BY PERMISSION, FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF RECORDS.]
WITH ACCURATE PORTRAITS OF
PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE DETECTIVE FORCE,
SOME OF THEIR MOST NOTABLE CAPTURES,
AND A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF
COL. H. C. WHITLEY, Chief of the Division.
BY CAPT. GEO. P. BURNHAM,
(LATE BRIGADE COMMISSARY, U. S. A.)
"Wrong is wrong. No fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-seeing Eye will discover and punish it." Rivarol.
Eighteen Illustrations by Bricher & Conant
BOSTON.
LEE & SHEPARD, 149 WASHINGTON STREET.
LABAN HEATH, AUTHOR OF THE "COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR."
LEE, SHEPARD & DILLINGHAM, NEW YORK.
1872.