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Cleveland (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.28
. I take possession of this ship in the name of the Confederate States of America. In the meantime the ropes around the old trunk were cut, the hatchets and revolvers which it contained distributed among the Confederates, and in a trice the crew of the Philo Parsons were prisoners below the hatches. The Stars and Stripes were hauled down, and the Stars and Bars floated from the flagstaff. Shortly after noon Put-in-Bay was reached. At the wharf lay the steamer Island Queen, bound for Cleveland, with 300 passengers, mostly unarmed soldiers, on their way to be mustered out. The Parsons quickly ran alongside, made fast, and captured her. The two vessels were then steered to Fighting Island, and the prisoners compelled to land. The steamers then proceeded toward Sandusky, and when within a short distance of the Michigan, Cole was rowed to her in a small boat in order to keep his engagement with the officers. Everything was working like a charm, and no one had the slightest suspici
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.28
rother was colonel. He was called to Richmond, and there assigned to the secret service, with orders to report to Jake Thompson, formelly Secretary of the Interior tender Buchalllan, but at that time supposed to be the Confederate leader, with he; adquarters in Canada. Major Cole was given command of the Department of Ohio, with headquarters at Sandusky. Major Tom Hinds, afterwards a judge at Bowling Green, Ky., was in command in Illinois and located at Chicago, while Major Castleman had Indiana, with headquarters at Centralia. At all these places Northern allies were working in conjunction with the Confederates. The plan was to make the attack on Johnson's Island, Camp Douglas, Camp Chase, and Camp Morton simultaneously, on Monday, September 19, 1864. Major Cole's part was to capture the Michigan, release the prisoners on the island, cut all the telegraphs wires, seize a train, run down to Columbus, help release, the prisoners at Camp Chase, return to Sandusky and establish temp
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.28
of the Fifth Tennessee Confederate Regiment, of which his brother was colonel. He was called to Richmond, and there assigned to the secret service, with orders to report to Jake Thompson, formelly Secretary of the Interior tender Buchalllan, but at that time supposed to be the Confederate leader, with he; adquarters in Canada. Major Cole was given command of the Department of Ohio, with headquarters at Sandusky. Major Tom Hinds, afterwards a judge at Bowling Green, Ky., was in command in Illinois and located at Chicago, while Major Castleman had Indiana, with headquarters at Centralia. At all these places Northern allies were working in conjunction with the Confederates. The plan was to make the attack on Johnson's Island, Camp Douglas, Camp Chase, and Camp Morton simultaneously, on Monday, September 19, 1864. Major Cole's part was to capture the Michigan, release the prisoners on the island, cut all the telegraphs wires, seize a train, run down to Columbus, help release, the pris
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.28
conjunction with the Confederates. The plan was to make the attack on Johnson's Island, Camp Douglas, Camp Chase, and Camp Morton simultaneously, on Monday, September 19, 1864. Major Cole's part was to capture the Michigan, release the prisoners on the island, cut all the telegraphs wires, seize a train, run down to Columbus, help release, the prisoners at Camp Chase, return to Sandusky and establish temporary headquarters of the Confederate Department of the Northwest. General Trimble, of Maryland, who was ranking officer on Johnson's Island, was to have been made commander-in-chief. Major Hinds, of Chicago, in addition to attacking Camp Douglas, was assigned to capture one of the iron steamers that ran between Grand Haven and Milwaukee. Systematic work. Cole went about his work systematically and skilfully. He established himself at Sandusky under the guise of a wealthy oil speculator of Titusville, Pa., and organized the Mount Hope Oil Company. Judge Filmore, of Buffalo,
Franklin (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.28
and the earthen embankments of the two forts are forcible reminders that heavy ordnance were once planted there, commanding a sweep of the entire island. While the people of the North were resting in fancied security, John Holt and his companions were watching and waiting patiently for the signal that would inform them of the capture of the manof-war Michigan, the throwing open of the prison gates at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, where 8,00 Confederates were confined; at Camp Chase, near Columbus, O., where there were 8,000 more, and at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, with about 4,000. The 3,200 officers on Johnson's Island were to command this army of newly liberated Confederate soldiers and sweep the North across its entire breadth, carrying havoc and panic throughout its course, and possibly turning the tide in favor of the South. The time was ripe for such a gigantic conspiracy. It was in 1864, when the Democrats of the North were preparing to declare in national convention that the
Sandusky, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.28
le in the South by one grand stroke of arms. Sandusky was the theatre of these tragic events, and J the Department of Ohio, with headquarters at Sandusky. Major Tom Hinds, afterwards a judge at Bowllease, the prisoners at Camp Chase, return to Sandusky and establish temporary headquarters of the Clly and skilfully. He established himself at Sandusky under the guise of a wealthy oil speculator oold, part of which was deposited in a bank at Sandusky, to Cole's credit. Accounts were also kept if the officers of the man-of-war Michigan. In Sandusky he was known as a jolly good fellow. He mana Philo Parsons, which ran between Detroit and Sandusky. She stopped at the various places on the Ca to land. The steamers then proceeded toward Sandusky, and when within a short distance of the Michplicated a dozen or more innocent citizens of Sandusky, and during the excitement occasioned by the here from Port Marblehead. L. B. Johnson, of Sandusky, purchased the property in 1852, and rented i[3 more...]
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.28
d the narrow avenues between the graves been traversed. The old man rested wearily upon his walking stick. Not here, said he, not here. The words had barely passed his lips when his wife, falling on her knees, cried out: Oh, father! father! The old man hastened to her side. She was supporting herself by a marble slab, which bore this inscription: Lieutenant Company G, John C. Holt, Sixty-first Tennessee Infantry. For thirty years the father and mother, who live near Nashville, Tenn., have sought their son. They found him during a reunion of the North and the South, in the graveyard of a northern prison. John Holt died in 1865, and was one of the three thousand or more officers who looked for liberty through one of the most stupendous plots of the war of the rebellion—an uprising in the North. The finding of his grave by his parents the other day brings back to mind the great conspiracy to liberate 20,000 Confederate prisoners in the North, seize the northern fr
Windsor, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.28
e Walsh, of Chicago: Detroit, September 19, 1864. Close out all of the stock in the Mount Hope Oil Company before 3 o'clock to-day. Be prompt. C. H. Cole. This meant that the attempt to capture the Michigan was to be made that afternoon, and that attacks should be made on Camps Douglas, Chase, and Morton. In company with Beall, Cole boarded the Philo Parsons, which ran between Detroit and Sandusky. She stopped at the various places on the Canada side of the Detroit river. At Windsor and Maiden the Confederates got aboard. At the latter place there were twenty men who brought with them an old-fashioned trunk tied with ropes. This, however, did not excite suspicion, as at that time there were any number of men fleeing into Canada to escape the draft, and others forced to return for want of money. Major Cole, who had become well acquainted with the commander of the vessel, Captain Atwood, was in the pilothouse. When all was in readiness Beall gave the signal and Col
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.28
d inform them of the capture of the manof-war Michigan, the throwing open of the prison gates at Camlighted cigar into the powder magazine of the Michigan, and blow all on board, himself inclusive, in9, 1864. Major Cole's part was to capture the Michigan, release the prisoners on the island, cut all Confederates enlisted as seamen on board the Michigan, and ten were enlisted as soldiers and statiohad arranged to dine with the officers of the Michigan on board the ship that evening. The wine was This meant that the attempt to capture the Michigan was to be made that afternoon, and that attacusky, and when within a short distance of the Michigan, Cole was rowed to her in a small boat in ordat, and at a given signal from Cole board the Michigan, while the officers were below at dinner, putheir escape was to be covered by the captured Michigan, which was to shell the fort and Federal quarall scuttled the Island Queen in sight of the Michigan, and running the Philo Parsons over the Canad[1 more...]
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.28
wood, was in the pilothouse. When all was in readiness Beall gave the signal and Cole covered the captain with a revolver. A bold exploit. You are my prisoner, he said, coolly. I take possession of this ship in the name of the Confederate States of America. In the meantime the ropes around the old trunk were cut, the hatchets and revolvers which it contained distributed among the Confederates, and in a trice the crew of the Philo Parsons were prisoners below the hatches. The Stars ao life imprisonment. In 1866 he was released on a writ of habeas corpus, at the instance of Jake Thompson, escaped to Canada, and thence to Mexico, where he served under Maximilian. He was finally pardoned by the President, returned to the United States, and at last accounts was an honored citizen of Texas. So the great conspiracy ended, and John Holt died a prisoner on Johnson's Island. Historic interest. Aside from its natural beauty and choice location, Johnson's Island has an hi
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