The North Star -- Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln

[David Lockmiller]

(05-06-2023 11:14 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  https://www.thesuburban.com/fyi/the-nort...42466.html

The book also shines a spotlight on the stories of such intrepid figures as Anderson Abbot, Canada’s first Black doctor, who joined the Union Army; Emma Edmonds, the New Brunswick woman who disguised herself as a man to enlist as a Union nurse . . . .

Jailed after the defeat of his rebel army, Davis was eventually released on bail. Once free, where did the hero of the South go? North – to Montreal, to join his wife and four children who already spent the closing months of the war in Canada. . . . The Confederate leader’s welcome tour in Canada included thousands of cheering fans in Toronto and a standing ovation at Montreal’s Theatre Royal, where the orchestra broke into “Dixie.”