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American Civil War
Rebel Raiders from Canada
Canada during the war was a convenient rendezvous for rebel refugees and marauders, who there found a cheerful welcome, congenial companions, sympathizing friends, and a safe asylum. But they were not content to remain in peace, consequently the State of Michigan, being on the Canadian border, was continually threatened with invasion by these rebels who were encouraged to raid by the Confederate government at Richmond, while many of them having been sent there under pay for that purpose, were led by its commissioned emissaries in their undertakings, in which they received a hearty encouragement from a very large class of the Canadian people, who seemed to be ever ready to incite and assist rebels, when they thought it advisable to make incursions into border States, to pillage, burn, and otherwise destroy.
Michigan in the Civil War
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