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re: 150 years ago this day...
Posted on 3/16/15 at 8:56 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 3/16/15 at 8:56 pm to BadLeroyDawg
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Famed actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth developed a plan to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for Confederate prisoners of war. This evening, Booth and his accomplices put on disguises and rode to the Soldiers Home on the Washington outskirts, where the Lincolns often stayed. Booth learned that Lincoln was not there and soon changed his plot from mere kidnapping to assassination
Interesting.
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Posted on 3/16/15 at 9:38 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Was interesting to me as well, TbirdSpur2010. Had never heard of the Dahlgren Raid prior to researching this last year. The Orders that were found on Ulric Dahlgren's body were posted in the Richmond newspapers. When the city fell in April 1865, Union Secretary of War Edwin Stanton had them confiscated and personally burned. But we all know that the winners write History, huh?
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