Why did the pinkerton army travel in secrecy?
They have quite a history and often it was better to travel incognito as they were primarily a detective agency Read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_Government_Services H-man
Does the us army travel a lot?
i have friends stationed all over the US, Korea, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Panama, Cuba, South America, and Australia.
What happened to the Pinkerton Detective Agency? When, Why, and How did they lose power?
At the turn of the 19/20th century, Pinkerton's biggest competitor was the William J. Burns International Detective Agency. With the ascendancy of federal and state law enforcement agencies, especially the FBI's fingerprint records, Pinkerton's and Burns retreated back into private industry. Many union busting activities were outlawed by federal law. It is ironic that Alan Pinkerton started the US Secret Service, and Burns, at the instigation of the Attorney General, started what would become the FBI. Pinkerton's, I believe, survives today as Securitas. To answer another question, since there was no FBI in the nineteenth century, the tracking down of outlaws fell to to the postal inspectors, the US Marshals, the Secret Service after the Civil War, Wells Fargo, Pinkerton's and various railroad detectives. Pinkerton's had the first national repository of criminal records, but personal identification was based on Bertillon measurements and portrait parles, which were both systems based on detailed physical descriptions, which were replaced by fingerprints. By the way, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and the Hole in the Wall Gang were pursued by postal inspectors who were "those guys" referred to in the movie. Pinkerton operatives chased jewel thieves and Burns operatives chased bank robbers and embezzlers.
Does the Secret Service protect state governors in the USA?
No. The secret service is an organ of the Dept. of Treasury. State governors are typically protected by state police. Lincoln appointed the Treasury Agents because he really had no other civilian agency to undertake the work, as the FBI, ATF and the like would not exist for some time and he did not want to have the military undertake the efforts. Treasury had agents to investigate currency counterfieting under Article 8, Section 1 of the Constitution. Before that private detectives handled the same. Lincoln’s body protection was by the Pinkerton Detectives. He would be killed before the Treasury Dept took over.
Why does the Secret Service protect the president and not the military?
Protecting the President from assassins doesn’t call for very many mortars or fighter jets, and only in extraordinary cases does it even require machine guns. What it does call for is interacting and coordinating with civilians, adapting to awkward circumstances, interpreting ambiguous threats without making mistakes, being very discreet and unobtrustive, and investigating and planning things very carefully. It’s a very different job and requires a very different skill set. Even if we did use a military unit to guard the President, its training and operations would be so specialized that it wouldn’t be able to share many resources with the rest of the military.Besides, Americans historically were not very comfortable with permanent military around them. Civilian law enforcement is a lot more comfortable.
A few questions about Andrew Carnegie??????HELP!?
Andrew Carnegie, Philanthropist Throughout his life, Andrew Carnegie loved to read. So it made sense that he wanted to give money to support education and reading. When Carnegie was a young man he lived near Colonel James Anderson, a rich man who allowed any working boy to use his personal library for free. In those days, America did not have a system of free public libraries. Carnegie never forgot Colonel Anderson's generosity. As a result, Carnegie supported education; he gave money to towns and cities to build more than 2,000 public libraries. He also gave $125 million to a foundation called the Carnegie Corporation to aid colleges and other schools. What else did Carnegie believe in? Andrew Carnegie, Philanthropist World peace was another cause Carnegie believed in. He established the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and funded the building of the Hague Palace of Peace, which houses the World Court, in the Netherlands. By 1911, Carnegie had given away a huge amount of money -- 90 percent of his fortune. About the time that community foundations were taking off, an even more momentous event occurred -- albeit one whose impact would take several decades to unfold in full force. In 1913, Congress imposed a personal income tax on Americans, and in 1917 it allowed people to take an income-tax deduction for their gifts to charity. At first, the influence of the tax deduction was small because the income tax affected mainly the wealthy. But during World War II, the impact of the tax grew considerably as income-tax rates rose and the pay of average Americans increased sharply because of the booming wartime economy.