[Troublous Times in Canada by John A. Macdonald]@TWC D-Link bookTroublous Times in Canada CHAPTER XIII 1/11
ON THE VERMONT BORDER--FENIANS GATHER IN LARGE NUMBERS--THE FIZZLE AT PIGEON HILL--ARREST OF GEN.
SPIER. During the night of the 31st of May a general movement of Fenian troops was commenced from different towns and cities in the New England States towards their point of concentration at St.Albans, Vermont.
This force was designated as the "Right Wing of the Irish Republican Army," and was commanded by Gen.
Spier, with Gen.
Mahon, of Boston, as his Chief of Staff.
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