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Thank you, Roger. Just needed to satisfy my curiosity as to whether Ernest Furgurson had found out something about Thomas Nelson Conrad that we didn't already know. If he has, he didn't mention it in this article.

We have photos of both Conrad and his wife in the late-1800s. A very handsome couple, and this sketch that appears in this article doesn't come close to looking like him! I had the pleasure of knowing a great-niece of his about twenty years ago. She gave us the photos and a copy of his writings. Another relative of the Conrads lived diagonally across the street from us and their daughter and mine were friends all through school. Her father was named Benjamin Conrad Perrie. The Perrie family is another of those Southern Maryland old-timers that I have always suspected of being part of the Secret Line, but they ain't talking!

BTW: Ernest Furgurson's book Freedom Rising is about Civil War Washington and very well done.