03/29/1862
In snowy Washington, imprisoned spy Rose Greenhow meets with the Commission on Political Prisoners
04/12/1862
In Georgia, Union infiltrators commandeer a Confederate train and initiate the "Great Locomotive Chase"
04/14/1862
In Georgia, the leader of the Union raid on the Confederate rail system is captured
04/29/1862
In Richmond, Virginia, Union agent Timothy Webster becomes the first spy executed during the war
06/07/1862
In Atlanta, James J. Andrews is executed for his role as leader of the raid on the Georgia rail system
06/18/1862
In Atlanta, seven Union raiders from the failed attack on the Georgia rail system are hanged as spies
10/16/1862
In Atlanta, the captured Union raiders from the failed attack on the Georgia rail system stage a mass escape
06/08/1863
- 06/09/1863
In Tennessee, daring Confederate spy mission fails and two are tried and hanged
01/08/1864
In Little Rock, Arkansas, seventeen year-old David Dodd is hanged as a spy on the grounds of his old school
02/10/1864
- 02/11/1864
Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew risks her life to shelter escaping Union officers in her Richmond home
03/15/1865
In Louisville, Kentucky, captured Confederate guerrilla M. Jerome Clarke, rumored to be "Sue Mundy," is executed for murder
03/25/1865
In New York Harbor, convicted Confederate spy and New York City arsonist Captain Robert Cobb Kennedy is executed
04/02/1865
In New Bern, North Carolina, a reported Confederate attempt to destroy the city by arson fails
04/03/1866
The U.S. Supreme Court decides "Ex Parte Milligan" in favor of the plaintiffs and orders them released
04/10/1866
In Columbus, Ohio, Lambdin P. Milligan walks free after almost two years in prison
