#102: Rapscallions! Part 1: "Patience Is Sour" [Thomas Henry Hines And The Great Northwestern Conspiracy] The Ancient And Esoteric Order Of The Jackalope podcast

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#102: Rapscallions! Part 1: "Patience is Sour" [Thomas Henry Hines and the Great Northwestern Conspiracy]

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Thomas Henry Hines had a cunning plan to free Confederate prisoners-of-war and break the Northwest off of the Union. All he needed were sixty good men, fifty footsoldiers, and friends on the inside. Too bad none of those groups existed.

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(This episode is part one of Rapscallions!, a three-part series about Confederate cloak-and-dagger operations in the final year of the Civil War. Parts two and three will be released on 9/23 and 10/7 respectively.)

Key sources for this episode include Adam Mayers' Dixie and the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union; David C. Keehn's Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War; Duane Schultz's The Dahglren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War; James D. Horan's Confederate Agent: A Discovery in History; and William A. Tidwell's April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War.

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