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American Civil War
Rebel Raiders from Canada
These depositions showed that the steamboat' Philo Parsons'
was owned by the informant Ashley, and other citizens of the United States; that this vessel was a licensed passenger and freight boat, and was plying between the city of Detroit, in the State of Michigan, ana the city of Sandusky, in the State of OHIO, and was accustomed to touch in this times at Windsor Canadian port of Amherstburg, and occasionally at Sandwich, and some-umea at windsor, Canada. Ashley was clerk on board the steamer. On Sunday evening, the
18th of September, 1864, she was lying at the city of Detroit, and the prisoner (Burley) came on board and said to Ashley that he intended to go down in the morning, and that three of his friends were going with him, and requested that the boat might stop at Sandwich to take them. Ashley told the prisoner that if he took the boat at Detroit, and his party were ready, the boat would call for them at Sandwich
Michigan in the Civil War
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