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Henry Thomas Harrison
| Confederate Spy Date of Birth: 01.01.1832 Country: USA |
Content:
- Early Life and Service
- The Spy That Changed Gettysburg
- Post-Gettysburg and Later Life
Early Life and Service
Henry Thomas Harrison was born in 1832 just outside Nashville, Tennessee.
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In November 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Mississippi state militia, but later that same month he transferred to the Confederate War Department, becoming one of the Confederacy's professional scouts.
The Spy That Changed Gettysburg
In March 1863, Harrison was assigned to General James Longstreet's staff and sent to Goldsboro, North Carolina.
On his way, he was captured by Union forces but managed to convince them he was a civilian evading military service. Harrison arrived at Longstreet's headquarters near Chambersburg on the night of June 28, 1863, with intelligence that the Union had a new commander, George Meade, and that Union forces were concentrating around Frederick, Maryland, a