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Montreal : city of secrets : Confederate operations in Montreal during the American Civil War / Barry Sheehy ; images arranged by Cindy Wallace.
- Title
- Montreal : city of secrets : Confederate operations in Montreal during the American Civil War / Barry Sheehy ; images arranged by Cindy Wallace.
- Author
- Sheehy, Barry
- Publication
- Montréal : Baraka Books, [2017]
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E545 .S52 2017 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Wallace, Cindy
- Description
- 296 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- Presents the history of Montreal, the city, which hosted the Confederacy's largest foreign secret service base during the American Civil War.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Military history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Montreal and the Confederacy -- Hub of Confederate Secret Service Activity -- Confederate Operations Mounted out of Canada -- ch. 2 Confederate Montreal 1861-1865 -- Turning Point -- The Trent Crisis -- Drama on the High Seas -- The Evolution of the Confederate Secret Service in Canada -- The Beginning -- 1864: The Confederacy Shifts Strategy -- Complementary and Conflicting Agendas -- Confederate Secret Service Fades Away -- ch. 3 Confederate Couriers -- A Hall of Mirrors -- Separating Slater from Brown -- St. Lawrence Hall and St. Catharines -- ch. 4 American Power Comes to Montreal -- Powerbrokers -- Politicians -- No Questions Asked -- Into the Ether -- ch. 5 Trading with the Enemy -- Lincoln and Patronage -- A Faustian Bargain -- The Frenzy in Montreal -- Brokers, Agents and Speculators -- How Much Cotton? -- ch. 6 Montreal, Halifax, Matamoros, and New York -- New York's Dirty Little Secret -- Halifax, New York, and the Montreal Connection -- Matamoros and New York -- ch. 7 The Hidden Hand -- John Wilkes Booth in Montreal -- Kidnapping the President -- A "Secesh" Town -- The Names Surrounding Booth -- The Mysterious Sarah Slater -- American Politicians and Newspaper Men -- Double-Carom -- The Hidden Hand -- ch. 8 Leaks, Anomalies, and Questions -- Overlooked Footnote in History -- Perjury the Norm? -- Dunham and the Secretary of War -- John Surratt and Sarah Slater -- Links and Linkages -- Stanton's Detectives in Montreal -- Unanswered Questions -- ch. 9 The British Players and Their Stories -- Lieutenant Colonel Garnet Wolseley Visits Robert E. Lee -- Lt. Colonel A.E. Clark-Kennedy and the Great March Across Canada -- British Captains L.G. Phillips and E. Wynne at the Battle of Fredericksburg -- ch. 10 St. Albans Raid -- Legal Dream Team -- ch. 11 Jefferson Davis in Montreal -- Appendix A Characters in Montreal: Ten months in Montreal from June 1864 to April 1865 -- Appendix B Thomas Barnett's Museum Visitors' Book Listings, June-November 1864 -- Appendix C Jacob Thompson Reports to Judah Benjamin -- Appendix D Blockade Runners with Ties to Montreal -- Appendix E Cotton Pass Signed by A. Lincoln -- Appendix F Map of Confederate Montreal Sites.
- ISBN
- 9781771861236
- 1771861231
- OCLC
- 985075285
- SCSB-10549338
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library