BOTCHED BANK BROUHAHA

On a dreary October afternoon, bands of Confederate raiders held up the
three banks in St. Albans, Vermont. With guns drawn, they herded the
townspeople out into the common, sending the people of the North into
panic. Operating out of a Confederate stronghold in Canada, the raiders
were young men, mostly escapees from Union prison camps, who had been
recruited to inaugurate a new kind of guerilla war along the Yankees'
unprotected border.

The raid, though bungling at times, was successful - as was the
consequent pursuit of the rebels into Canada. The celebrity-like trial
it sparked in Montreal and resulting diplomatic tensions that arose
between the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, left the Southern dream of
a second-front diversion in ruins.

Death to The Confederacy!