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Montreal, City of Secrets: Confederate Operations in Montreal During the American Civil War
During the American Civil War, the Confederate government’s largest foreign secret service base was in Montreal. Montreal, then the largest city in British North America, has kept secret its unique role in the American Civil War ever since. Based on original archival research, Barry Sheehy challenges core tenets of the American Civil War narrative.
- GenresHistory
300 pages, Paperback
Published October 15, 2017
About the author
Barry Sheehy
12 books3 followersBarry Sheehy is the author or contributing author of several books, including the celebrated Savannah Immortal City and over fifty published papers and articles. His writings have appeared in anthologies alongside of those of Presidents Clinton and Bush, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and business leaders such as Lou Gerstner, Jack Welch and Michael Dell. He holds degrees from Loyola and McGill Universities.
Mr. Sheehy’s lifelong passion for history has continued since his early years as a decorated officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. His focus eventually turned to America’s most complete, surviving, antebellum southern city – Savannah, Georgia. After many years of exhaustive research, Sheehy began the task of developing the four-volume Civil War Savannah series in 2005. With rigorous cross-checking from both previously published works and newly discovered original materials, Sheehy has written the most extensive historical study of Civil War Savannah ever undertaken. Now, just in time for the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, the first volume, Savannah Immortal City, was published in February 2011, and the second, Brokers, Bankers, and Bay Lane: Inside the Savannah Slave Trade, is scheduled for publication in the spring of 2011.
Mr. Sheehy’s lifelong passion for history has continued since his early years as a decorated officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. His focus eventually turned to America’s most complete, surviving, antebellum southern city – Savannah, Georgia. After many years of exhaustive research, Sheehy began the task of developing the four-volume Civil War Savannah series in 2005. With rigorous cross-checking from both previously published works and newly discovered original materials, Sheehy has written the most extensive historical study of Civil War Savannah ever undertaken. Now, just in time for the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, the first volume, Savannah Immortal City, was published in February 2011, and the second, Brokers, Bankers, and Bay Lane: Inside the Savannah Slave Trade, is scheduled for publication in the spring of 2011.
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March 18, 2021
This is a very well researched book with a lot of very interesting photographs and records placing key operatives in the civil war in Canada.
Specifically, Montreal and Halifax acted as a base of secret operations and blockade running for both sides of the civil war, and the British, to organize financial warfare.
The book documents the manipulation of the Cotton market which led to the Cotton Bubble, which created generational wealth for bankers and friends of Lincoln's administration.
The book repeats itself at some points, but overall a great & very unique read.
Specifically, Montreal and Halifax acted as a base of secret operations and blockade running for both sides of the civil war, and the British, to organize financial warfare.
The book documents the manipulation of the Cotton market which led to the Cotton Bubble, which created generational wealth for bankers and friends of Lincoln's administration.
The book repeats itself at some points, but overall a great & very unique read.
Displaying 1 of 1 review