The Dahlgren Raid

[L Verge]

(06-03-2015 10:57 PM)Pamela Wrote:  

(06-03-2015 02:05 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Mr. Hall used to pose the question as to who had the authority to approve the assassination of a head of state except another head of state...

Hall, Tidwell, Gaddy, John, and Jane Singer have made large dents in trying to "decipher" the Confederate secret service, but there's a lot still left unknown. I remember Bill Tidwell once saying that his portion of Come Retribution was going to be a textbook on how to build an espionage force. He swore that the French Resistance during WWII studied the Confederate system and knew more about it than Americans.

That was likely Lincoln's "politically correct" stance and the one proclaimed to the public, but Lincoln was a pragmatist who wanted to end the war as soon as possible. I cannot believe (and this is strictly my thought), that he did not believe that Jefferson Davis was the top dog in the opposition and needed to be removed. How many politicians do we know of that think one thing in the Oval Office and say something else in the White House Press Room?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought the Union and Lincoln didn't consider Davis a head of state since they didn't regard the Confederacy as a country, just the southern states in rebellion. Had the South won, I guess Davis would have been a head of state.