Captain George Smith Anthony and The Voyage of the SS Catalpa In 1874, rebel leader John Devoy received another letter from Fenian prisoner James Wilson that he chose to read aloud at a national meeting of the Clan Na Gael. Part of it read: “Think that we have been nine years in this living tomb since our first arrest and it is impossible for mind and body to withstand the continual strain …
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