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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Appendix to Chapter XXVIII. (search)
he subject, and present these conclusions only after thorough examination and the most mature consideration. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. Halleck, Major-General, Chief of Staff. Rebel efforts in loyal States. General Townsend to General Fry.—(telegram.) Albany, New York, October 12, 164. Brigadier-General Fry, Provost-Marshal-General: I am just informed that an effort is to be made to-day to capture the steamer Michigan, and release the prisoners on Johnson's Island, by a party that is to rendezvous at Port Keeler, said to be 2,000 strong. I have sent the persons bringing me the information directly to Major-General Dix, and also telegraphed him. F. Townsend, Assistant Provost-Marshal-General. General order of General Dix. General orders. Headquarters, Department of the East, New York City, October 26, 1864. Satisfactory information has been received by the major-general commanding that rebel agents in Canada design to send into the Uni
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Appendix to Chapter XXX. (search)
d that it may be considered as a dead letter; but this cannot be affirmed with regard to the document which forms the next ground of complaint. Thirdly, the President of the so-called Confederate States has put forth a proclamation acknowledging and claiming as a belligerent operation, in behalf of the Confederate States, the act of Bennett G. Burley in attempting, in 1864, to capture the steamer Michigan, with a view to release numerous Confederate prisoners detained in captivity in Johnson's Island, on Lake Erie. Independently of this proclamation, the facts connected with the attack on two other American steamers, the Philo Parsons and Island Queen, on Lake Erie, and the recent raid at St. Albans, in the state of Vermont, which Lieutenant Young, holding, as he affirms, a commission in the Confederate States army, declares to be an act of war, and therefore not to involve the guilt of robbery and murder, show a gross disregard of her Majesty's character as a neutral power, and