Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Sheehy, Barry (1951-....). Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Montreal, city of secrets [Texte imprimé] : Confederate operations in Montreal during the American Civil War / Barry Sheehy ; images arranged by Cindy Wallace ; [photographs by William Notman]
Publication : Montréal : Baraka Books, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (296 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibiogr. p. 269-284. Index
Presents the history of Montreal, the city, which hosted the Confederacy's largest
foreign secret service base during the American Civil War
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Notman, William (1826-1891). Photographe
Sujet(s) : Espionnage américain -- Montréal (Canada) -- XIXe siècle
Relations -- États confédérés d'Amérique -- Montréal (Canada)
États-Unis -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Services de renseignements -- États confédérés d'Amérique
Indice(s) Dewey : 327.127 1 (23e éd.) = Espionnage et subversion - Canada ; 973.786 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Guerre de Sécession, 1861-1865 - Service secret et espions de la Confédération
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781771861236 (br.). - ISBN 1771861231 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46715838t
Notice n° :
FRBNF46715838
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Machine generated contents note:ch. 1. Montreal and the Confederacy -- ; Hub of Confederate
Secret Service Activity -- ; Confederate Operations Mounted out of Canada -- ; ch.
2. Confederate Montreal 1861-1865 -- ; Turning Point -- The Trent Crisis -- ; Drama
on the High Seas -- ; The Evolution of the Confederate Secret Service in Canada --
; The Beginning -- ; 1864: The Confederacy Shifts Strategy -- ; Complementary and
Conflicting Agendas -- ; Confederate Secret Service Fades Away -- ; ch. 3. Confederate
Couriers -- ; A Hall of Mirrors -- ; Separating Slater from Brown -- ; St. Lawrence
Hall and St. Catharines -- ; ch. 4. American Power Comes to Montreal -- ; Powerbrokers
-- ; Politicians -- ; No Questions Asked -- ; Into the Ether -- ; ch. 5. Trading with
the Enemy -- ; Lincoln and Patronage -- ; A Faustian Bargain -- ; The Frenzy in Montreal
-- ; Brokers, Agents and Speculators -- ; How Much Cotton? -- ; ch. 6. Montreal, Halifax,
Matamoros, and New York
New York's Dirty Little Secret -- ; Halifax, New York, and the Montreal Connection
-- ; Matamoros and New York -- ; ch. 7. The Hidden Hand -- John Wilkes Booth in Montreal
-- ; Kidnapping the President -- ; A "Secesh" Town -- ; The Names Surrounding Booth
-- ; The Mysterious Sarah Slater -- ; American Politicians and Newspaper Men -- ;
Double-Carom -- ; The Hidden Hand -- ; ch. 8. Leaks, Anomalies, and Questions -- ;
Overlooked Footnote in History -- ; Perjury the Norm? -- ; Dunham and the Secretary
of War -- ; John Surratt and Sarah Slater -- ; Links and Linkages -- ; Stanton's Detectives
in Montreal -- ; Unanswered Questions -- ; ch. 9. The British Players and Their Stories
-- ; Lieutenant Colonel Garnet Wolseley Visits Robert E. Lee -- ; Lt. Colonel A.E.
Clark-Kennedy and the Great March Across Canada -- ; British Captains L.G. Phillips
and E. Wynne at the Battle of Fredericksburg -- ; ch. 10. St. Albans Raid -- ; Legal
Dream Team -- ; ch. 11. Jefferson Davis in Montreal
Appendix A. Characters in Montreal: Ten months in Montreal from June 1864 to April
1865 -- ; Appendix B. Thomas Barnett's Museum Visitors' Book Listings, June-November
1864 -- ; Appendix C. Jacob Thompson Reports to Judah Benjamin -- ; Appendix D. Blockade
Runners with Ties to Montreal -- ; Appendix E. Cotton Pass Signed by A. Lincoln --
; Appendix F. Map of Confederate Montreal Sites.