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Booth's mistress, Ella Starr, and other "unknown" Booth ladies!
01-19-2013, 09:41 AM
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RE: Booth's mistress, Ella Starr, and other "unknown" Booth ladies!
I read this piece in Headley's Operations in Canada. Is he describing Sarah Slater or French Kate or both?

Mrs. ,* a widow only 24 years old, employed by the Confederate Government for secret service in the Northern States, had come to Montreal and called on the prisoners at the jail. She volunteered for the journey to Richmond. After leaving the railroad in Maryland she walked much of the way through the country occupied by the enemy in Virginia. She departed from Richmond with the necessary certified papers, well concealed, one day before Rev. Mr. Cameron arrived there. These two messengers, traveling by different routes, reached Montreal on the same day. She declined to accept from Col. Jacob Thompson any compensation whatever for her services or expenses. This devotee of the South was a Kentucky lady. About 1867 she visited Frankfort when the legislature was in session. During a recess of fifteen minutes taken in her honor she was the recipient of an ovation, being presented by Hon. Thomas T. Coger, of Jessamine County, the home of Lieut. Bennett H. Young. *The prisoners never met this lady before or after her visits to the jail at Montreal. One of the survivors secured her photograph at the jail, but after forty years her name is forgotten
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RE: Booth's mistress, Ella Starr, and other "unknown" Booth ladies! - JMadonna - 01-19-2013 09:41 AM

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