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- Title
Alabama's C.C. Clay, Jr.: A Not-So-Secret Agent for the Confederacy.
- Authors
Mcilwain, Sr. Christopher Lyle
- Abstract
The article focuses on Clement Claiborne Clay, also known as C.C. Clay Jr., a lawyer-secessionist from Huntsville, Alabama who was elected by the Alabama legislature as senator to the Confederate Congress. Topics discussed include the covert operations led by Clay in Canada during the months leading up to the 1864 presidential election, the effects of this activities on the course and outcome of the civil war, and allegations about his role behind the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
- Subjects
CONFEDERATE States of America; CLAY, Clement Claiborne; ALABAMA state history; ASSASSINATION of Abraham Lincoln, 1865; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; HISTORY
- Publication
Alabama Review, 2018, Vol 71, Issue 2, p83
- ISSN
0002-4341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ala.2018.0007