Larry, Moe, and Curly, otherwise known as Operators 12, 14 and 15 of the Union Secret Service, are summoned by their general to infiltrate the Confederate ranks to get information. Hilarity Ensues.
- Affably Evil: Despite being a high-ranking member of the Confederacy, the Colonel is a swell guy. Even Bloodhound Philbert is a pretty reasonable man.
- Brutal Honesty: One of the ladies asks Curly if he likes the cake he's been served. He wearily looks her dead in the eyes and matter-of-factly states that "if he hadn't helped bake it, he'd never know it was a cake". She looks downright insulted.
- Of course, the only reason there's an oven mitt in it in the first place is because Curly mistook it for a cake and frosted it along with everything else.
- Extreme Omnivore: An interesting subversion, considering all the other inedible things consumed in these shorts. The boys are served a multilayer cake with an oven mitt embedded in the middle; they do manage to eat it, but are positively miserable the entire time, struggle to even separate the bite, are eating solely to be polite, and are soon coughing up geysers of down.Moe: (defeated) How's your's taste?Curly: Like a mattress.
- No Name Given: The Colonel's daughter Judith arrives with two other women. Who they are is completely unknown.
- Noodle Incident: Apparently, Officer 13 swam across a river and died of Potomac poisoning.
- Smart Ball: Yes, somehow, the Three Stooges are "the brains of the secret service" (so says their own general!) and they go out of their way to prove it several times throughout the short.
- The boys stay in character, even when they're completely alone.
- They get out of questioning twice by impersonating "Good Time Charlie"'s walk
- The boys use their amiability to get the Colonel to admit they have much less men than suspected, and barely any artillery.
- Curly intercepts a letter meant to inform the Colonel that he and the other stooges are spies; he pretends he can't read it without his glasses, brings it to a candle to get better light, and promptly burns it.
- The Dog Bites Back: Curly, disguised as Mrs. Captain Dodge, gets a chance to box Moe's ears while in distress that their imaginary baby has gone missing.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Both the colonel and his daughter find Curly very funny.
