Confederate agent : a discovery in history / by James D. Horan.
With never-before published contemporary photographs, facsimile documents and other illustrations, this book presents the true story of The Northwest Conspiracy. It was a daring plan that came close to destroying the Union from within, by getting Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to join the Confederacy while New York City was in flames. Chicago was ready for rebellion, 100,000 Northern Confederates stood ready to strike. Based on official papers hitherto suppressed by the U.S. War Dept.--the secret and unpublished diaries of Capt. Thomas H. Hines, C.S.A., official agent of the Confederate government and mastermind of its underground. The story of a grim and deadly phase of the Civil War not fought on battlefields, but with spies, counter-spies, mysterious women, and shadowy conspiracies--finally brought to light.
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- Physical Description: xxii, 326 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsimiles ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, 1954.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Bibliography: pages 311-320.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part I. The raider and guerrilla : the apprenticeship ; The most dangerous man in the Confederacy -- Morgan's Raiders -- Fires of the Copperheads -- Part II. Secret agent : underground ambassador ; On to the Ohio -- Prison -- The escape -- Part III. The Northwest conspiracy : the preparation ; The mission in Canada -- The fox and the Copperheads -- Counterspy -- Commissioner Holcomb and the 'Wild Rose' -- Part IV. The Northwest conspiracy : the attacks ; The raid on Maine -- Password for revolution -- Ballots, if not bullets -- Target : transports -- A letter from Lincoln -- The Indiana conspirators -- the battle of Lake Erie -- The bank raids in Vermont -- Betrayal in Chicago -- The fox and the hounds -- A rainy wedding night -- The burning of New York -- The Maine coast expedition -- Shoot them down -- The kidnapping of the vice president-elect -- Part V. The aftermath : dispersion and reunion ; A stranger in a strange land -- The trials and tribulations -- The hanging of a hero -- The expatriates -- The ordeal of the gallant Templar -- A new role : reconstruction and reconciliation.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | Ref OCR 973.786 H (Text) | 36015000010831 | Genealogy | Available | - |
