Montreal, City of Secrets: Confederate Operations in Montreal During the American Civil War

摘要

Oh the secrets a hotel register can reveal, especially during war in a city roiling with conspirators, spies, commodity traders, blockade runners, bankers, and other operatives engaged in a variety of enterprises, legal and otherwise. Barry Sheehy has energetically tapped the guest book of Montreal's St. Lawrence Hall Hotel from the summer of 1864 through the end of the war and unsealed many of the "black ops" behind the signatures. His colleague, photographer Cindy Wallace, matched many of the guests with photos from nearby Notman's Studio. The result is a lively and graphically rich expose of Rebel operations engineered north of the North.