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#104: Rapscallions! Part 3 "Surprised and Excited" [the St. Albans Raid and more] Take 2
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This week we wrap up our look into Confederate skulduggery with a grab bag of smaller plots: Staging fake peace conferences at Niagara Falls! Robbing banks in Vermont! Burning New York! Kidnapping the vice president!
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/surprised-and-excited/
(This episode is the third and final part of Rapscallions!, a series about Confederate cloak-and-dagger operations in the final year of the Civil War.)
Key sources for this episode include Adam Mayers' Dixie and the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union; Michelle Arnosky Sherburne's The St. Albans Raid: Confederate Attack on Vermont; Oscar Arvle Kinchen's Daredevils of the Confederate Army: The Story of the St. Albans Raiders; and William A Tidwell's April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War.
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