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American Civil War
Rebel Raiders from Canada
He did not say in Ashley's hearing he was in any service, nor for what purpose he took the boat. There were about twenty-five United States soldiers on board the Island Queen, who were captured. The passengers were not prevented from taking their baggage. Nichols confirmed Ashley's testimony In most of the material particulars. He said that Bell came to him in the pilot house, and said he was a Confederate officer, and siezed the boat, and took him (Nichols) a prisoner. But he also said the prisoner seemed to be the leader of them. He did not see the money taken. He heard the prisoner say, when the Island Queen was set adrift, that they had cut her pipes so that she would sink. They had taken every person from on board of her. Afterwards the ' Philo Parsons' was steered back towards Detroit. Before this,. however, it seems that some of the passengers who were made prisoners were put on shore, on the American territory.
Michigan in the Civil War
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