September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
Newspaper, Frank Leslie's Illustrated, November 12, 1864, complete issue, 16pp., disbound, VG. War date issue with reports and engravings of the War. Most important is the center spread, "Raid on St. Albans, VT., By Rebels From Canada ...." provides 11 vignettes with keyed captions. The St. Albans Raid was the northernmost land action of the War, taking place in St. Albans, Vermont on October 19, 1864. In this unusual incident, Bennett H. Young led Confederate States Army forces. Young had become a prisoner of war after the Battle of Salineville in Ohio ended Morgan's Raid the year before; he later escaped to Canada and returned to the South, where he proposed raids on the Union from the Canadian border to build the Confederate treasury and force the Union Army to protect the northern border and divert troops from the South. Young was commissioned as a lieutenant and returned to Canada, where he recruited other escaped rebels to participate in a raid on St. Albans, Vermont, a quiet town 15 miles from the Canadian border.
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