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SUB CW. You're going to do. you're Hey everyone. Thanks for tuning in episode number 461 of our Civil War

podcast. My name is Rich and I'm Tracy. Hello y'all welcome to the

podcast. The genesis of this episode was a moment

when we were putting together the podcast timeline for the first part of

1864 and in one of the sources we were

consulting there was an entry which said that in February 1864 the

Confederate Congress allocated $1 million for Canadian-based espionage and sabotage operations.

And that's really all it said, but well that was enough to peak our curiosity.

We already knew about some connections to Canada with the unsuccessful Confederate plan to free the

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