Forest City Courier in Forest City, North Carolina

Secret Service Mission at Fair Oaks and Washington

A midnight telegram warns of an attack on Washington ammunition stores. Two agents, John and the parson’s cipher, flee toward safety with a plan to capture a dangerous female operative. Jeanne Beaufort, posing as Alice Trent, travels from Richmond to Baltimore then Washington disguising as a nurse. Captain Armitage advances the affair as Jeanne, now Alice, infiltrates political and military circles in Washington. The tale sets up a covert Civil War espionage thread.