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Cumberland Landing, Va. Secret Service men at Foller’s House. Seated behind the men at the table is the head of McClellan’s secret service of detectives and spies, “Major Allen,” smoking a pipe. Known as “E. J. Allen,” it is several years before his identity is revealed as Allen Pinkerton, a Scotchman who had emigrated to the United States about 20 years earlier and created a successful detective agency in Chicago.
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