Unnamed Union Intelligence Officer

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-02-24 08:00
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Unnamed Union Intelligence Officer
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Unnamed Union Intelligence Officer
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In Go Down, Moses Faulkner (or Cass) invents this "Yankee Intelligence officer" who finds Lee's "battle-order . . . on the floor of a saloon" (272). (The losing and finding of Lee's order actually happened during the Civil War, but in fact it was found by a Union corporal lying in the grass.)

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