Lucas cabin

[Bill Richter]

And if one wishes to believe David Rankin Barbee, "Lincoln and Booth," a lengthy manuscript in the Barbee papers at Georgetown U, the Maryland planters who suffered from Lincoln's policies were instrumental in scheming to kidnap Lincoln, a plan later picked up by the Confederacy.

Of course, Tidwell, Hall, and Gaddy, Come Retribution, in the oft neglected first section of the book, show how much Confederate activity took place in Southern Maryland.

There was also a large Union military training camp for black soldiers at Benedict that trained at least 4 regiments (1,000 men each) and continual Yankee raids along the rivers in Southern Maryland.