the city was a crossing point for Confederate raiders under the command of Gen. John Hunt Morgan. Back then, the flag was carried by the enemy. When they finally met, Mains said, Hickey complained ...

On October 16, 1859, John Brown led 21 men on an assault at Harpers Ferry -- an event that shook the nation and [nudged it even closer toward civil war]. Among these raiders were five black men ...

In 1864, the Chicago Tribune urged the American Union army to invade Canada after a group of Confederate raiders took refuge there. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) But as discontent grew ...

Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders ...

The Alabama became the most audacious Confederate raider, capturing and sinking 55 ships and raising nearly $5 million towards the Confederate war effort. She circumnavigated the globe and was ...