Texas Reb Goes On Daredevil Mission

With 11 days left in the Civil War, the manacled Confederates filed into a Canadian courtroom on March 29, 1865, to find out whether they would be set free or tried by the Yankees as common criminals.

Desperate times demanded desperate deeds, and by October 1864 southerners were willing to take any risk that might turn the tide. Since the fall of Vicksburg and Lee