A Bit of Levity re: O'Reilly's "Killing Lincoln"

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I have lived near those Maryland swamps nearly all my life and had never heard nor read anything about Union soldiers drowning in them until I read O'Reilly's book. Those soldiers stood a better chance of getting eaten alive by mosquitoes than drowning in the swamps unless it was a very wet spring.

I wondered at the time if Messrs. O'Reilly and Dugard mistook the deaths for the drownings of the Alexandria firemen and others who were on the Black Diamond boat in the Potomac when struck by another ship. Those men were part of the search for the fugitives.