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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.” ...
ST. ALBANS – Richard Cummings grew up in St. Albans. He heard little in his youth about the St. Albans Raid. "It was nothing more than a plaque on Main Street — a state of Vermont aluminum ...
The St. Albans Bank was robbed of between $70,000 and $80,000, and the Franklin County Bank of a considerable amount. Some twenty horses were also seized by the desperadoes and carried off.
Vermont In the Civil War Heritage Trail goes from Bennington to St. Albans. ... or his attacks on slaveholders in Kansas as the sparks that started the American Civil War.
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...
Captain George Conger, a St. Albans resident and Union Civil War veteran who organized a posse that pursued the fleeing raiders. St. Albans Raid Commemoration Committee ...
ST. ALBANS (AP) -- Civil war re-enactors are setting up camp in St. Albans for the third annual St. Albans Civil War Heritage Weekend, featuring artillery demonstrations and fiddle music. Companies ...
In 1864, Southern soldiers plotted to take tiny St. Albans, rob its banks, and change the course of the Civil War. ON OCTOBER 10, 1864, Bennett Young stepped off the train from Canada, and into ...
ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) - Officials in St. Albans say they have spent the last three years working to change the image of the city’s police department after a former officer was caught on camera ...
The treasure included a Civil War-era bullet, referencing the infamous 1864 raid of St. Albans by Confederate soldiers who snuck in through Canada. "It's really neat to have a Civil War bullet in ...
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...