Chapter 6
As President Washington had informed them, once he was no longer in office, knowledge of Gabe was passed from one Secretary of War to the next: Samuel Dexter, Henry Dearborn, William Eustis…the list went on and on. From the First Barbary War to the War of 1812 to the Mexican-American War, and finally to the worst war of all—the War Between the States, which pitted brother against brother.
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Gabe and Remember worked hard. Sometimes the information they gathered resulted in a battle won. Sometimes the officers who received the information discounted it and followed their own inclinations, resulting in a battle lost along with numerous lives.
They just hoped that with each battle, each march, each new general replacing a previous one, that the war was growing closer to an
