Belle Grove Plantation

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Isn't that going to be part of your quest to follow in the footsteps of Booth and Oldroyd?

In conversing with the management of Belle Grove now, I was told that the ferry that Thornton manned was actually owned by the people at Belle Grove. I had never heard that and somehow assumed that Rollins owned the ferry. Any idea on that Dave?

To follow up on Col. Conger, Steve Miller is the expert on him; but I believe he found that Conger had received very disabling wounds in the hip area during the war and that it was quite a chore to even mount a horse - much less ride for hours. Miller also found that Clara Barton had nursed him during his recovery period. Years later, when she was having difficulty getting political support for the American Red Cross, Miss Barton visited Conger's brother, who was then a U.S. Senator. She made known to him the story of her nursing Everton Conger - and political support began to come.