CSA Detective Corps

[ANVReb]

Does anyone have any information about the CSA Detective Corps? I took this photo in a small graveyard in Charles City Co. VA

 

[JOHN42768]

No clue, but Welcome, enjoy

 

[Bruce Vail]

Never heard of a Detective Corps before. Now I'm curious...

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Hello ANVReb, welcome aboard.

I must say I've never heard of a Confederate Detective Corps either.

 

[nc native]

My interest has been piqued too. The solider on the gravestone in the picture served
in the 15th Virginia Infantry and the Detective Corps according to Find A Grave.
Perhaps this subject matter needs some investigation work. (pun intended)

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Well, his cards on fold3 are interesting.

It seems that after being conscripted, he was assigned as a "detective" to the provost marshal in the Richmond, VA prisons (Eastern District Military Prisons ?) :

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

His entire fold3 records:

 

[Story]

Does anyone have any information about the CSA Detective Corps? I took this photo in a small graveyard in Charles City Co. VA

The name of their OIC in 1864, via the New York Times (February 13, 1864)

From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 8.

Capt. MACCUBBIN, chief of the detective corps, was assigned the duty of penetrating the mysteries of the case, and threading the details through the labyrinths of rumor to their head and source.

http://www.nytimes.com/1864/02/13/n...t-discovered-food-question-comments-upon.html

 

[Tom Elmore]

Detective work is also described by David B. Parker in his reminiscences as a Federal postal inspector:

https://archive.org/details/chautauquaboyin601park

 

[ANVReb]

Many thanks to all for the leads. I sense there's much more to this story and broader counter espionage and counter saboteur efforts by both countries.

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

Many thanks to all for the leads. I sense there's much more to this story and broader counter espionage and counter saboteur efforts by both countries.

Loreta Janeta Velázquez was considered a member of the "Detective Corps". Secret Service maybe ?

 

[lelliott19]

Here's another spy for your list - assuming that the CSA Army Intelligence Office was the assignment listed for spys?

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/csa-spy-john-randolph-hill-co-c-8th-georgia-infantry.128274/

 

[ANVReb]

Loreta Janeta Velázquez was considered a member of the "Detective Corps". Secret Service maybe ?

Thanks. And of course there was the famous Mrs. Rose O'Neal Greenhow