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American Civil War
Rebel Raiders from Canada
The females were asked to promise to do so, but it was not said in Nichols's hearing why this was done. When the ' Island Queen' was cast adrift, they were about fourteen miles from Johnson's Island, as the boat would have gone. When coining up the Detroit river, some of the party said they had not made much by coming down. They had intended to take the ' Michigan' if they could. They had a Confederate flag, and compelled Nichols to assist in raising it on the ' Philo Parsons, ' when the boat was on Lake Erie, returning toward the Detroit river. It was put about half way up the flag staff. "
The complicity of the rebel Government, with its agents, sympathizers, and refugees in Canada, in November, 1863, in concocting a raid on the territory of the United States, is apparent from the date of the following appointment, given by Jefferson Davis to Burley, on the 11th day of September of that year, he, undoubtedly, being one of the naval officers mentioned in the report of the rebel secretary of war as having been sent into the British Provinces with a large number of commissioned and petty officers, to organize an expedition against "Johnson's Island" during "the fall of the year referred to.
Michigan in the Civil War
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