13 February 2019

When In Canada


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"About this time *certain gentlemen in Canada began to be unenviably known. I make no charges against those whom I do not know, but simply say that the Confederate agents, Jacob Thompson, Larry McDonald, Clement Clay, and some others, had already accomplished enough villainy to make Wilkes Booth, on the first of the present year, believe that he had but to seek an interview with them."

*certain gentlemen in Canada"[Obituary of ] Col. Robert Maxwell Martin of Louisville, Ky., one of General John H. Morgan's Confederate troopers. He was in the [February 1864] plot to abduct Vice President Johnson on his way to the inauguration, succeeded to the command of the Third Kentucky Cavalry, and in last days of the war, when in Canada, formed the plot to abduct Johnson." [Source]



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