A Vast and Fiendish Plot: The Confederate Attack on New York City

by Clint Johnson and Dashka Slater

New York City, November 25, 1864. Confederate officers attempt to destroy the city with a series of lethal fires that will forever diminish it to a mere speck of an island. What fueled these Southern patriots' rage? And what if they had succeeded? This terrifying scenario almost became a reality following what the New York Herald declared "a vast and fiendish plot." Infuriated by the Union's killing of their beloved General John Hunt Morgan and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806531312
• ISBN13: 9780806531311
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"