*PRESIDENTS, *ARCHIVES, *HISTORICAL source material, *HISTORY, UNITED States politics & government, 1849-1861
Abstract
Reviews the books `The Papers of Jefferson Davis,' Volume 6: 1856-1860, and `The Papers of Jefferson Davis,' Volume 7: 1861, edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist and Mary Seaton Dix.
*PRESIDENTS, *AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865, *ARCHIVES, *HISTORICAL source material, *HISTORY
Abstract
Reviews the book `The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Volume 9: January-September 1863,' edited by Lynda Lasswell Crist, Mary Seaton Dix and Kenneth H. Williams.
*RAIDS (Military science), *BIOTERRORISM, *NINETEENTH century, *HISTORY, *INTERNATIONAL relations, FOREIGN participation in the American Civil War, 1861-1865, CANADIAN history, 1841-1867
Abstract
The article looks at the use of Montreal, Quebec as a base for clandestine Confederate meetings during the U.S. Civil War. It looks at how Confederate President Jefferson Davis sent former Cabinet member Jacob Thompson to Montreal to organize a secret service that would raid the northern U.S. Thompson's plots included destabilizing the Union economy by converting paper money into gold, bioterrorism with yellow fever, and kidnapping President Abraham Lincoln.
Published
2014
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