Allan Pinkerton
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Before the war, he had worked as a detective in Chicago and founded his own agency, which largely focused on crimes against the railroads; it was Pinkerton who warned of a possible presidential assassination plot as Abraham Lincoln traveled to Washington for his inauguration. As the armies organized in 1861, General George McClellan brought Pinkerton in as an intelligence officer; he knew the operative from his prewar position as a railroad executive. Pinkerton rose with McClellan and became responsible for military intelligence in the eastern theater. But Pinkerton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s intelligence was completely unreliable, as he vastly overestimated the Union army\u00e2\u0080\u0099s opposition. At Antietam, McClellan hesitated to both attack and then pursue Robert E. Lee\u00e2\u0080\u0099s army because Pinkerton had convinced him that the Confederates outnumbered the Union. In fact, McClellan held a superiority of about three to one."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Pinkerton used the name E. A. 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