Lt. Bennett Young drew the blueprint for Old West bank robberies far from the West. In October 1864, he and 20 Confederate soldiers snuck into St. Albans, Vermont (in civilian clothes).
BY ROLAND KLOSE St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 10, 2021
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About 500 St. Louisans gathered in 1914 for the dedication of a Confederate memorial in Forest Park, where Bennett H. Young, commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans Association, eulogized the “bravery” and “bitter determination” of the 600,000 Southern men who fought for a “cause they believed to be right.” Young, an apologist for the Confederacy, played a key role in littering the country with memorials to the “Lost Cause,” but, as in all things, his story is complicated.
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