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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
arned, from a most reliable source, that a concentration of rebels and their sympathizers is to take place at St. Andrews and Grand Menan Island, N. B., preparatory to an attack upon Belfast or Eastport or Calais, as the prospect of success may seem most favorable. They are to be conveyed to the place of attack by a rebel steamer and brig. The men who leave here to-night are under command of a Colonel D. Wood and Captain Nichols, late Missouri guerillas, and men of very bad fame. The Colonel D. Wood is a very large-built man. He has had a complete outfit made here for this special occasion. Each of the men are armed with rifles and revolvers purchased here. This expedition, whatever may have been its purpose or its strength, failed; nothing more was ever heard of it. Among the presents which the Governor received from our officers at the front was a green turtle, weighing 352 lbs. It was sent from Florida, by Major D. B. Keith, of the Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry. The Gove