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Hattie Lawton, also known as Hattie H. Lawton,〔 Cuthbert (1949) Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot. p. 4. 〕 Hattie Lewis Lawton〔 Fishel (1996) The Secret War for The Union. p.131. 〕 was an American detective. She may have been born around 1837,〔 Quarles (1953) The Negro in the Civil War. p.89. 〕 although most details of her life before and after the Civil War are unknown. “() Lawton was part of Pinkerton's Female Detective Bureau, formed in 1860 to ‘worm out secrets’ by means unavailable to male detectives."〔 Rhoades (August 2002)"The Women of Castle Thunder" 〕 ==Civil War== Lawton continued to work for the Pinkerton Detective Agency during the Civil War. She was part of the team that participated in the detection of the alleged 1861 Baltimore assassination plot against President-elect Abraham Lincoln and, according to Pinkerton's account, in the early part of 1861 Hattie was stationed in Perrymansville, Maryland with Timothy Webster, another Pinkerton agent.〔 After Pinkerton began his “Secret Service” for Gen. George B. McClellan, Lawton and Webster were added to the payroll of the Pinkerton’s service in Washington on August 8, 1861.〔 Lawton again posing as Timothy Webster’s wife appeared in Richmond, Virginia in the early part of 1862.〔 Fishel(1996) The Secret War for The Union. p.148. 〕 The two were sent by Pinkerton to Richmond to gather intelligence about Confederate army movements. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hattie Lawton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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