In October 1864, approximately twenty-one Rebel soldiers took over St.
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Newton to chase the Rebels out of town.
Stewart Stranahan and John W.
Albans men organized under recently discharged Union captain George Conger, F.
St.
The raiders fired on townspeople as they stole horses and robbed the local banks.
This northernmost land action of the Civil War ignited wartime fear and anger in every Northern state.
Albans, Vermont, proclaiming that it was now under Confederate government control.
In October 1864, approximately twenty-one Rebel soldiers took over St