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Plaque in St. Albans memorializing the St. Albans Raid. The St. Albans Raid was the northernmost land action of the American Civil War.Taking place in St. Albans, Vermont, on October 19, 1864, it was a raid conducted out of the Province of Canada by 21 Confederate soldiers who had recently failed in engagements with the Union Army and evaded subsequent capture in the United States.
- October 19, 1864(1864-10-19)
- Confederate victory
- The Northernmost Land Action of The Civil War
- Ready For Action
- The Raid Begins
- The St. Albans Bank
- Franklin County Bank
- First National Bank of St. Albans
- On The Streets
- Chase Is Given
The story of the St. Albans Raid of Oct. 19, 1864, has all the makings of a silver-screen drama. In fact, a 1954 movie, “The Raid,”did just that, although it played fast and loose with the facts. The youthful, dashing and real-life lead character, Confederate Lt. Bennett Young, was the small band’s leader. Young took charge of the mission almost ri...
The mood inside Bennett Young’s Tremont House room that afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1864 had to have been tense. The five-story Tremont was located on North Main Street where St. Albans City Hall stands today and it was there that the band of Confederates gathered just before their surprise action. Nine days earlier, Young had come to St. Alba...
It was cloudy and threatening rain when Young arrived out front of the American House hotel. He stopped and told the several men present there that as “an officer of the Confederate Service,” he was “going to take the town … and shoot the first person that resisted.”Bystanders thought he was joking, but knew better when gunfire and rebel yells fill...
Cyrus Newton Bishop saw armed men entering the St. Albans Bank and ran to a back office where Martin A. Seymour was working. The men were no match for raiders Collins, Spurr, Price and Squire Tevis. The raiders quickly pushed through an inner door, which struck Bishop soundly on the head, causing a bruise that lasted for days. The newly taken hosta...
What happened at the end of the Franklin County Bank robbery is not for the claustrophobic. Jackson Clark, a local wood sawyer, was in the bank before four raiders, pretended to be customers, entered. Huntley, fresh from the first robbery, arrived and asked cashier Marcus W. Beardsley about the price of gold. Beardsley said none was sold there and ...
The First National Bank of St. Albans was robbed about simultaneously with the Franklin County Bank. Raiders Bruce, Doty, McGrorty and Wallace were assigned to it. As the raiders entered, bank clerk Albert Sowles was in the office with a distinguished military man, then nearly 90-year-old Gen. John Nason. Nason had been the head of the Franklin Cou...
Raiders not assigned to rob the three banks guarded the streets, herded pedestrians onto the village green and rounded up horses for the getaway. Many of those who were in the vicinity that day, including those who were students at the St. Albans Academy (today’s home of the St. Albans Historical Museum) would later write accounts of the day. Tight...
Captain George Conger, a native of St. Albans and a resident of Lower Welden Street, had recently been discharged from the Union Army after 10 months of service in the Company B, First Vermont Cavalry. While downtown that day, he was informed of the raid, and come running up Main Street from the south. When raiders attempted to force him into the p...
Oct 12, 2024 · Saint Albans Raid, (Oct. 19, 1864), in the American Civil War, a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory; the incident put an additional strain on what were already tense relations between the United States and Canada. On Oct. 19, 1864, about 25 Confederate soldiers based in Canada raided.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 20, 2019 · The St. Albans Messenger’s edition that day – Oct. 19, 1864 – reported that the city had been “invaded” and its banks robbed by a “party of about twenty-five.”. The paper, in its ...
Feb 7, 2006 · Last Edited August 2, 2023. In the third year of the American Civil War, around 20 Confederate agents raided the town of St. Albans, Vermont. The raid was planned by Confederate spymasters based in St. Catharines and Montreal. On 19 October 1864, the men robbed the town’s three banks and killed a man, before crossing the border into Canada.
May 14, 2014 · The Rebel foray into St. Albans was the northern most land action of the U.S. Civil War. In the fall of 1864, Vermont seemed far removed from the bloody battlefields of the American Civil War. Although as many as a tenth of the state’s 300,000 residents were in uniform, the actual fighting raged elsewhere.
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Twenty Confederate soldiers attacked the village of St. Albans, Vermont on October 19, 1864. The raid was planned to avenge assaults on Southern cities, to obtain money needed by the Confederacy, and to cause confusion and panic on the Northern border. The raiders robbed three banks of more than $200,000, killed one citizen and wounded two ...
