“The town is full of the wildest rumors, and speculation runs rife,” reported the Vermont Transcript on October 21, 1864, only a few days after the northern-most land attack in the Civil War in the town of St. Albans on October 19th, 1864.
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The raiders first appeared a few days earlier, staying at a variety of St. Albans lodgings, according to the Vermont Transcript:
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