National Express Co.

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Gene and Weichmann are correct. Surratt, Jr. worked briefly for the Adams Express Company. I have never seen National Express mentioned anywhere. However, Surratt's older brother, Isaac, left home on Inauguration Day in 1861, and joined an express company that took him as far west as Texas before he joined the Confederate Army.

We have never known what company that was, but we have our suspicions that it was the one run by Benjamin Ficklin. We have never found a name for Ficklin's company - but we haven't searched that hard either.