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JW Booth and Quinine
03-06-2015, 08:54 AM
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(03-05-2015 06:44 PM)wpbinzel Wrote:  In that bit of dialogue and what follows, John Wilkes Booth boasts of smuggling quinine (and possibly other drugs) to the Confederacy. Has there been research (or even a past discussion that I am unable to locate) about whether Booth actually engaged in smuggling quinine south?

Hi Bill. In his Surratt Courier article author Dave Keehn writes, "Henry C. Higginson, a prisoner at Andersonville, said he was told by Confederates that Booth helped the South and had been shown a Dec. 1863 letter signed by 'J. Wilkes' regarding loads of medicine shipped through Kanawha Valley."

The entire Higginson affidavit can be read on p. 349 of Kimmel's Mad Booths of Maryland.
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JW Booth and Quinine - wpbinzel - 03-05-2015, 06:44 PM
RE: JW Booth and Quinine - Anita - 03-05-2015, 07:40 PM
RE: JW Booth and Quinine - L Verge - 03-05-2015, 08:09 PM
RE: JW Booth and Quinine - SSlater - 03-05-2015, 10:59 PM
RE: JW Booth and Quinine - L Verge - 03-06-2015, 07:18 AM
RE: JW Booth and Quinine - BettyO - 03-06-2015, 07:28 AM
RE: JW Booth and Quinine - RJNorton - 03-06-2015 08:54 AM
RE: JW Booth and Quinine - wpbinzel - 03-06-2015, 01:22 PM
RE: JW Booth and Quinine - wpbinzel - 03-07-2015, 11:53 AM
RE: JW Booth and Quinine - L Verge - 03-06-2015, 01:46 PM
RE: JW Booth and Quinine - SSlater - 03-06-2015, 09:08 PM
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