. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . JOHN C. BABCOCK A SECRET SERVICE MAN FROM 61 TO 65 PHOTOGRAPHED IN 1862 WITH HIS FLEET HORSE GIMLET Avoid the camera is the rule of the twentieth century secret-service man. But on that sunny day of October, 1862, the dashingyoung scout was guilty of no impropriety in standing for his portrait: direct half-tone reproductions were yet unknown, photographyitself under the limits of its first pioneer years, and the photographer was Alexander Gardner, himself a trusted secret-service was correspondence about this very photo
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . JOHN C. BABCOCK A SECRET SERVICE MAN FROM 61 TO 65 PHOTOGRAPHED IN 1862 WITH HIS FLEET HORSE GIMLET Avoid the camera is the rule of the twentieth century secret-service man. But on that sunny day of October, 1862, the dashingyoung scout was guilty of no impropriety in standing for his portrait: direct half-tone reproductions were yet unknown, photographyitself under the limits of its first pioneer years, and the photographer was Alexander Gardner, himself a trusted secret-service was correspondence about this very photograph which, forty-eight years later, brought the editors of the Photographic Historyinto touch with Babcoek himself. He had enlisted in the Sturges Rifle Corps, of Chicago, but was soon detailed to McClellans secretservice with Pinkerton. He remained after the latter left, did most of the scouting and news gathering under Burnside, and con-tinued in the bureau, as reorganized by Colonel Sharpe, until the end of the war. No small part of his success was due
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