http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-691-the-confederate-secret-service-and-the-assassination-of-abraham-lincoln/attachment/come-retribution/ Web site and blog of anti-fascist researcher and radio personality Dave Emory. Thu, 24 May 2012 01:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-691-the-confederate-secret-service-and-the-assassination-of-abraham-lincoln/attachment/come-retribution/comment-page-1/#comment-7269 Christine A Miller Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:16:12 +0000 http://spitfirelist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/come-retribution.jpg#comment-7269 I have some primary sources that can get establish this link even closer than that. Unfortunately, provenance was all blown to bits by the researcher who was not a historian, just an avid enthusiast who had no idea that anything beyond a notary seal (many of these illegible) would be needed if you wanted to change history. For now, you might look at the roster of Mosby's regiment. You will find enlisted one John B. Wilkes (Booth's stage name, which he used as his most common alias). You can see that his name was kept on the books, but never paid. He supplied them with information but also, he owned (through his wife--yes, I know, the wife he officially didn't have, but John B. Wilkes did) in Harpers Ferry which was a way station on the courier route. Mosby's "territory" extended that far, and they would pick up mail and also medicinals, which Booth was smuggling South, through connections he had made prior to the war, using a small band of friends and relatives, a lot of them theater people, to the extent that in many cases the Confederacy was better supplied with certain drugs than northern doctors were. If you would like to see some of these documents, including interviews with Mosby, let me know. I have some primary sources that can get establish this link even closer than that. Unfortunately, provenance was all blown to bits by the researcher who was not a historian, just an avid enthusiast who had no idea that anything beyond a notary seal (many of these illegible) would be needed if you wanted to change history. For now, you might look at the roster of Mosby’s regiment. You will find enlisted one John B. Wilkes (Booth’s stage name, which he used as his most common alias). You can see that his name was kept on the books, but never paid. He supplied them with information but also, he owned (through his wife–yes, I know, the wife he officially didn’t have, but John B. Wilkes did) in Harpers Ferry which was a way station on the courier route. Mosby’s “territory” extended that far, and they would pick up mail and also medicinals, which Booth was smuggling South, through connections he had made prior to the war, using a small band of friends and relatives, a lot of them theater people, to the extent that in many cases the Confederacy was better supplied with certain drugs than northern doctors were. If you would like to see some of these documents, including interviews with Mosby, let me know.

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