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Detective Allan Pinkerton Was Born in Glasgow, Scotland

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Secret Service Men at Foller's House, Cumberland Landing, Virginia, 1862

Posing in Virginia in 1862, Pinkerton detectives went on to become the U.S. Secret Service

CREDIT: Gibson, James F., photographer. "Secret Service Men at Foller's House, Cumberland Landing, Virginia." May 1862. Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865, American Memory collections, Library of Congress.



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