About this episode

The episode discusses the thwarted Copperhead insurrection and the subsequent Confederate strategies to terrorize Northern cities.

After a planned Copperhead insurrection in Chicago is thwarted, the Confederates pivot to new methods for terrorizing Northern cities using fire, bank robberies, and biological warfare. When those fail to bring the Union to its knees, they turn their attention to kidnapping the President.

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