The Creation Of Allan Pinkerton National Detective Agency In 1851

earned a job as Abraham Lincoln’s bodyguard, before his presidency. Allan Pinkerton founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1851. Pinkerton worked as Lincoln’s Secret Service and ran spy operations for the Union during the Civil War. On April 12, 1861, Allan Pinkerton wrote to President Lincoln to offer the services of his agency to the United States, the letter he wrote was put in a cryptic format. Pinkerton gave the responsibility to Webster, which is Pinkerton’s trusted operative to deliver the cryptic letter along with the cipher code to Lincoln. Later in Ohio, Pinkerton set up shop and established his Secret Services and spy operations. Pinkerton would send Webster south into the Confederate country, on sole purpose to

Webster passed himself off as a native Kentuckian, raised in Baltimore, and his purpose was making friends, which eventually lead him to befriending high-ranking officers in the Confederate military. Webster’s approach was to shake hands with recruits, joke and laugh with petty officers, become familiar with captains and colonels, and talk profoundly with generals in the Confederacy. This eventually led Webster to befriend a Confederate Colonel, a Clerk at the War Department, therefore opening the door to the Confederate’s military network. At one point, Webster discovered a tail, a Confederate detective following him back north to meet with Pinkerton. Nevertheless, Webster lost his tail by jumping trains at a train station in Kentucky. In August 1861, the Union spy traveled to Baltimore to start collection operations for Pinkerton on the same Maryland secessionists, which Webster infiltrated the organization back in 1860. Webster, Lewis, and Timothy’s cover wife, passed as socialites and rebel sympathizers to collect information on the organization. Webster uncovered secret plots and movements of the disloyal citizens, therefore becoming traitors to the Union. The Union spy unveiled supply operations of disloyal citizens to the Union supplying rifles and ammunitions to the

Timothy stopped in at a hotel, where he enjoyed a dinner with some rebel sympathizers. Unfortunately, there is a Union sting operation in placed to arrest the rebel sympathizers, consequently they arrested Webster. Timothy had war correspondence on him, when the Union officers arrested him, luckily Webster's knew the chief of police for Baltimore and explained his intentions for being there. The chief of police arranged prison transport for Webster, where they escorted him outside of the city. Upon, arriving outside the city, the prison guard kicked Webster off the buggy and told him to run. The chief of police arranged a fake escape, which help fortify Webster’s