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#103: Rapscallions! Part 2: "Resist at Your Peril" [the Philo Parsons Incident]

#103: Rapscallions! Part 2: "Resist at Your Peril" [the Philo Parsons Incident]

Update: 2024-09-23
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The only thing standing between John Yates Beall and the Confederate prisoners-of-war on Johnson's Island was the USS Michigan... Well, that and a terrible con man and the cowardice of his own men.

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/resist-at-your-peril/

(This episode is part two of Rapscallions!, a three-part series about Confederate cloak-and-dagger operations in the final year of the Civil War. Part three will be released on 10/7.)

Key sources for this episode include  Adam Mayers' Dixie and the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union; John Bell's Rebels on the Great Lakes: Confederate Naval Commando Operations Launched from Canada, 1863-1864; Duane Schultz's The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War; William A. Tidwell's April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War; and The Memoir of John Yates Beall: His Life, Trial; Correspondence, Diary, and Private Manuscript Found Among His Papers, Including His Own Account of the Raid on Lake Erie.

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