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  1. During the Civil War, he was involved in activities in Europe and Montreal to support the Confederacy. [2] Sanders was involved in organization of the 1864 Niagara Falls peace conference, and negotiated with the United Kingdom to build ships for the Confederate States Navy. [2]

  2. George Sanders, a real man, was heavily involved in the Southern cause and suspected to be behind Lincoln's murder. Despite efforts to capture Sanders, he escaped to Canada and Europe, never ...

  3. Mar 30, 2024 · George Sanders is probably the most significant example of this, as his character has been enhanced to represent all of Confederate insurgency in the period up to and directly after Lincoln's assassination.

  4. Another person who aided the Confederates in Canada was George Sanders, an advocate of political assassination and a Lincoln hater. Among the plots hatched in Montreal were plans to raid Union towns in New York and New England, free prisoners held in Union jails across the border, poison the water supply in New York City, and spread yellow ...

  5. George Nicholas Sanders was a former official of the United States and supporter of the Confederate States of America. Sanders was believed by some to have a level of involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

  6. George Nicholas Sanders family papers. Correspondence, journals, and printed matter of Sanders family members relating to mid-nineteenth century politics, social life, and the Civil War.

  7. During the Civil War Sanders became a Confederate agent. In 1864, after numerous business ventures, he joined the secret service operation in Canada. Sanders was instrumental in organizing the St. Albans raid in Vermont and the abortive Niagara peace conference, two seemingly contradictory projects.

  8. Correspondence, journals, and printed matter of Sanders family members relating to mid-nineteenth century politics, social life, and the Civil War.

  9. During the Civil War Sanders served as a Confederate agent in Europe and Canada. Some of his daring exploits included grand schemes to conquer the Federal blockade and attending the Niagara Peace Conference in 1864 disguised as a Welsh miner.

  10. Nov 27, 2012 · With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new author’s note by Saunders himself, this edition is essential reading for those seeking to discover or revisit a virtuosic, disturbingly prescient...

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