Why Were The Radical Republicans Radical?

[L Verge]

I got a good historical background on the role of the Jews during the Civil War from a former guide at Surratt House who drove from the Philadelphia area twice a month to give tours at our museum. He was Jewish and a Civil War addict, so it was perfectly natural for him to discuss things with me whenever he had a chance because he knew that I loved history.

In fact, he introduced me to Philip Whitlock, a Jew in the Confederate army who donned civilian clothes and ran the blockade into Maryland via the same routes that Booth left the state - through Southern Maryland and across the Potomac into the Northern Neck of Virginia. His purpose in sneaking into the federal capital was to purchase needed goods to sell to his camp mates back in the Confederacy. In his recollections, he mentions being at Surratt Tavern, being ushered immediately into the family parlor, having dinner there, and even watching men having target practice in the side yard.