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ally the ofTense for which be died was
that of being a spy.
The Judge advocate who condemned
BeaIl described him rs one whom violent
passions had shorn of his native element
of manliness and led him to commit deeds
which to have suspected him capable OF at
an earlier stage of his career would have
been calumnyAnd crime" He might
have added that one would not expect to
find united in any one man the power to
conceive, to direct and execute plots so
daring as those in which Beall engaged.
His lake raid only wanted success to place
it beside Cushing's enterprise in sinking
the Albemarle. And the failure did not
rest upon Beall. Like Cushing, Bean
planned his raid and took all the response
bility upon his own shoulders.
For some time before he appeared on
the border stage Beall had led the daring
life of swamp angel, on the lower
Potomac river His work had been the
destruction of Union commerce. In some
foray of the kind he was wounded and re-
ceived commission acting master in
the Confederate navy. He learned in 1864
that the Confederate authorities We're
scheming to obtain a foothold upon the
border and were operating in that direc-
ton through emissaries in Canada. There
were several failures in this direction, and
after the notable one of the proposed
emuete of the Sons of Liberty during the
Democratic convention in Chicago, BealPs
daring plan was taken up by the Rich
mond government and its agents in Can
ada.
Beall reached the lakes at Sandusky,
O., and the details Evere arranged for CO.
operation on shere and In loyal territory.
The notorious Jacob Thompson, the Con-
federate emissary in Canada, had prepared
the way by st;ldy of the lake defenses.
This work had been intrusted chiefly to
Captain Cole, one of the Morgan raiders
who had escaped and found safe hiding on
the border. Cole and Bean met at San
dusky. Success In the daring raid was to
rest finally upon Cole, but the part of the
enterprise calling for the highest quality
of nerve was that assumed by BealL
Coles share of the enterprise was that
of the secret villain. He was literally sup
piled with money and instructed to bride
anybody who could serve his purpose or
who stood in the way and was purchasable.
In that manner he was expected to secure
an uprising of the prisoners at the war
prisons ON Johnson's island, in Lake
Erie, and at Camp Chase, Chicago. One
of the defenses of Lake Erie, and the grim
guardian, on the water side, of johnson S
island prison, was the United States gun
boat Michigan. The Michigan lay off the
island within cannon and signal range
COle'S money was TO silence the guns VI
the Michigan at the moment for Beall to
strike his blow This part of the plan
was dramatic, but not at all difficult as
things were then. By means of ban
quet, graced by pretty women, to the
ships officers and feast for the crew, the
fighting force of the Michigan was to be
placed in the condition of Samson-shorn
of its strength. Meanwhile Bean was to
be out in the lake with fighting force
we'll in hand and act upon signal to be
sent up from the island, saying that every
thing was fixed for the armed descent OF
the raiders.
BealI like Cole, was still in the CONTEXT
crate service and under orders from the
Richmond authorities. Both were IN dis
cuise and were therefore spies. Beall
proceeded to Canada and mustered force
of fighting men to aid in the capture OF
the Michigan. He secured the aid OF an
other naval officer, Bennett G. Burnley, and