The so-called Confederate Army of Manhattan, a…
November 1864 CE
The so-called Confederate Army of Manhattan, a group of eight Southern operatives, attempt to burn New York City on November 25, 1864, during the final stages of the war.
In a plot orchestrated by Jacob Thompson, the operatives had infiltrated Union territory from Canada and made their way to New York.
On Friday night, November 25, beginning around 8:45 PM, the group attempts to simultaneously start fires in nineteen hotels, a theater, and P. T. Barnum's museum.
The objective is to overwhelm the city's firefighting resources by distributing the fires around the city.
Most of the fires either fail to start or are contained quickly.
All the operatives escape prosecution except for one, Robert Cobb Kennedy, who will be apprehended in January 1865 while trying to travel from Canada to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
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