Sgt. Harry H, Brogden

[L Verge]

I suspect Judah Benjamin of having many devious plans - including a hand in the capture of Lincoln. Maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand why passes would be needed for seven men and a captured Lincoln to be landed in Virginia???

I can understand why the Confederacy wanted to stop deserters by demanding passes; I never realized that the men like Atzerodt and Jones who ferried people under cover of night across the river would be asking for passes before they would start rowing???

Guess I'm going to have to spend the winter re-reading Come Retribution and April '65. I've taken a lot of heat for supporting the Tidwell, Hall, Gaddy theories over the past twenty years. Maybe it's because I was raised military, but their reasonings about the whole Lincoln capture/assassination stories are the ones that make the most sense.