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Adventurous Americans and Civil War Rebellions
The article recounts Civil War era exploits including 18 year old Georgia guard cadet David H. Ross’s capture, escape, and plot with Captain Beall to seize the Philo Parsons and the Michigan, with 170 Union soldiers aboard, near Sandwich Ontario. It also covers Newt Knight’s Jones County rebellion in Mississippi and the later title of Republic of Jones, plus Lewis Littlepage’s early fame as an 18 year old envoy and his revolutionary era adventures with Kosciusko and Lafayette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
David H. Ross
Georgia Guards
Lake Erie
Canada
John Yeates Beall
Ross
Beall
Philo Parsons
Michigan
Ft. Johnson
Mat
Wilmington
N. C
Secret Service
Grant
Jones County
Mississippi
Newt Knight
Leaf River
Jones
Knight
Washington
Republic of Jones
Lewis Littlepage
Fredericksburg
Spain
Lafayette
France
America
Kosciusko
Warsaw
Stanislaus
Catherine
Russia
Turkey
John Paul Jones
Little Y
Paris