. Confederate operations in Canada and New York. John W. Headley 1865 IN CANADA AND NEW YORK 277 about hanging the rebels to lamp posts or burning them atthe stake. Still we discovered that all was surmise appar-ently. So far as we could learn the programme had beencarried out, but it appeared that all had made a failure. Itseemed to us that there was something wrong with our Greekfire. All had observed that the fires had been put out in all theplaces as easily as any ordinary fire. We came to the con-clusion that Longmire and his manufacturing chemist hadput up a job on us after it was found
. Confederate operations in Canada and New York. John W. Headley 1865 IN CANADA AND NEW YORK 277 about hanging the rebels to lamp posts or burning them atthe stake. Still we discovered that all was surmise appar-ently. So far as we could learn the programme had beencarried out, but it appeared that all had made a failure. Itseemed to us that there was something wrong with our Greekfire. All had observed that the fires had been put out in all theplaces as easily as any ordinary fire. We came to the con-clusion that Longmire and his manufacturing chemist hadput up a job on us after it was found that we could not bedissuaded from our purpose. Martin and I got together as agreed and found lodgingabout 2 oclock. We did not awake until lo oclock nextday. We went into a restaurant on Broadway near Twelfthstreet for breakfast. It was crowded, but every one wasreading a newspaper. After giving our order we got theHerald, World, Tribune, and Times, and to our surprise theentire front pages were given up to sensational accounts ofthe attempt t
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