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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1865., [Electronic resource] | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: October 27, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: October 26, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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St. Albans,
A city and county seat of Franklin county, Vt., near Lake Champlain.
On Oct. 19, 1864, a party of armed Confederate refugees in Canada, under the leadership of Lieut. Bennett H. Young, raided the town in the afternoon, and attacked the St. Albans, Franklin County, and First National banks.
They overpowered the few employes of the banks then on duty, secured an aggregate of $211,150 in bank-notes, seized all the horses they could find, and rode off hastily towards Canada.
The party numbered between thirty and forty, and the entire proceeding occupied only about twenty minutes. Nearly the entire party was subsequently captured by the Canadian authorities.
In 1867 the town was again a centre of public interest.
An invasion of Canada from the United States had been arranged for the spring by members of the Fenian Brotherhood.
Buffalo, N. Y., and Detroit, Mich., were chosen as the principal rendezvous, and St. Albans, Vt., and Odgensburg, N. Y., as depots for the a