Thomas F. Harney

[Jim Garrett]

I would imagine that it will be difficult to find much on Thos. Harney. I've looked for an image of Harney and couldn't come up with anything. Like many clandestine operatives, he kept a very low profile. I think if anyone comes up with new information, it will be a great discovery. While my esteemed colleague Dave Taylor feels that there isn't much to Enoch Mason, I find him an interesting person, and think he was involved. Another person we don't have much information on is Augustus Howell, who is living in the boarding house and arrested at the Surratt Tavern as a spy at the end of March '65. How advanced were the Confederate Secret Service operations? We will probably never know, but my guess is their operations were much larger than we know. That's the idea. Leave no footprints.

BTW Howell lies in a unmarked grave in Congressional cemetery, not far from J. Edgar Hoover.