The Lincoln League

by Doug Peterson Book 4 in the North-South Series series.

First published 2013

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John Scobell, a formerly enslaved man recruited by Allan Pinkerton, enters Confederate territory as a Union intelligence operative. His ability to move through spaces where white observers dismiss him becomes both a weapon and a danger as he gathers military information and works with a clandestine Black network known in the novel as the Lincoln League.

The story combines Scobell’s documented service with fictional operations, including the activities of another Black agent and a threat involving Confederate technology. It treats espionage as part of the wider struggle over slavery and citizenship, examining how racism made Black people politically invisible even while their information became vital to the Union war effort.