Civil War Subversion Investigations
Records: 62,819 · Complete: 100%
Case files were acquired during the war by Associate Judge Advocate Major Levi C. Turner and, after early 1862, by the War Department under Lafayette C. Baker. The Turner files mostly relate to the arrest, parole, and release of suspects, while the Baker files include reports submitted by private individuals and government officials relating to suspicious persons and alleged subversive activity. A case file may contain one to several hundred documents.
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"Case Files of Investigations by Levi C Turner and Lafayette C Baker, 1861-1866" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com/publication/626/civil-war-subversion-investigations: accessed October 3, 2022)
- Publication Title
- Civil War Subversion Investigations
- Total Records
- 62,819 · Complete: 100%
- Content Source
- Publication Number
- M797
- Record Group
- 94
- Published on Fold3
- 13 Apr 2010
- Last Updated
- 21 May 2010
- Description
- NARA M797. Case files of the "Turner-Baker papers," relating to investigations of subversive activities in the Civil War.
