Oddities of the Lincoln assassination

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(11-27-2014 07:06 AM)HerbS Wrote:  My sister in law is a Calvert! Do you have any information you can share on the Calvert's?Please be nice to the Calverts!

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There is a bundle of info on Google -under "The Calverts of Maryland."
I stumbled into the Davis/Stuart tie when I researched Samuel Boyer Davis and I found the Alonzo marriage to Caroline Calvert Stuart.

Samuel B. Davis was one of the Confederate Agents sent to Richmond to get "Papers" for the St. Albans Raiders. He was captured in Newark, Ohio - and convicted of spying. His failure led to Sarah Slater's trip to Richmond to get "Papers". She was successful.

Davis' capture is the biggest batch of Union lies ever written. The Union claimed that two prisoners released from Andersonville identified him on his trip South - even though he had dyed his hair, and changed his appearance, etc. and there NO RELEASES FROM ANDERSONVILLE in the time period they cited. They concocted the lies to fool the Courts in Canada. The Courts approved Davis' trip, but the Union was not going to allow any "Papers" the would free the Raiders. (This is a good story - look it up, you will enjoy it.)
IMO, they were following him from Canada. The Union attended the Raider trial, so they knew Davis, and knew his mission. They followed him long enough to be sure they were inside the United States.

Davis came from a long line of U. S. Generals - from the Revolution. So, Lincoln jailed him for the duration of the War, instead of hanging him, he lived and married and had Alonzo, who married Caroline...........