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The Confederate Spy Cole and the Murray Pursuit
The article recounts Willson Murray a Canadian chief inspector who in 1864 tracked Confederate agent Cole across Canada and the United States from Detroit Windsor Montreal Albany New York Philadelphia Washington to Sandusky. Murray exposed Cole captured him on the Michigan with a fake alias Wilson and faced a tense exchange over a moral choice while Cole plotted a doomed raid to free prisoners on Johnson Island. Cole was transferred to Johnson Island then Fort La Fayette and Fort Warren before release after Lincoln's proclamation.
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