Fishing Creek Confederacy

"I want you to go up there and destroy this organization--this "Fishing Creek Confederacy" as it is called..."

"The whole thing is a grand farce."

"The Fishing Creek Confederacy which to some may seem a myth was to us a bitter reality."

"The story of draft resistance in Columbia County is one of the most complex tales of such activity in Pennsylvania, primarily because of the lacunae of primary sources and the nature of the surviving primary sources."

"No open resistance, no organization in opposition to the federal authorities, nothing but the act of a few men who fled to escape being forced into the army &mdash and this is the history of the 'Fishing Creek Confederacy'"