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SSlater · 03-13-2017, 12:21 AM

(03-10-2017 09:52 AM)L Verge Wrote:
(03-10-2017 01:50 AM)SSlater Wrote: 1 Jan 1865. Slater has been in Canada for several months.
10 Jan. Slater departs Canada for Richmond. (to get the "papers' needed by the St. Albans Raiders.)
16 Jan. Slater asks for a passport "to visit her mother in NYC" This is a ruse - she needed a passport to cross the Potomac and didn't have one.
22 Jan Arrives Richmond
31 Jan Departs Richmond -alone- for Canada. Arrives at Brogden's Camp on Lower Potomac..
1 Feb. Meets Gus Howell for the first time. He is to escort her to NYC.
(Stays at the European Hotel) She continues to Canada alone.
13 Feb. Arrives at St. Lawrence Hall at 3 AM. Howell had returned to D.C. to wait for her.
22 Feb Slater arrives D.C. Quickly departs Surratt House with Howell for the Potomac.
25 Feb. Atzerodt rows Surratt, Howell and Salter across the Potomac to the "Tennant" Farm (I once owned that Farm).
26 Feb. Howell leaves for Richmond. Surratt and Slater - wait a day.
28 Feb Arrive Richmond.
Early March. Howell and Slater depart Richmond for the Camp on the lower Potomac. ".
10 Mar Slater spends a night at Surratt House. Mrs. Surratt introduces Sarah as as "Mrs. Slater" from N.C. -spoke French and carried dispatches to Montreal.
11 Mar. dep. for NYC and Canada.
17 Mar. Slater's arrival is shown in E. G. Lee's Diary. Signs at SLH as from NY. Room #146. This is when Thompson said "This makes the thing all right".
19 Mar. R. D. Watson sends letter.
20 Mar. S. F. Cameron @ SLH room 175.
21 Mar Slater dep. Canada.
23 Mar Slater arv .NYC. Travels to D.C. with Booth.
25 Mar. Slater arv. Surratt House. Surratt and Barry escort Slater to Potomac.
26 Mar. Slater and Surratt cont. to Richmond.
29 Mar. Slater and Surratt At Spottswood hotel. Surratt signs as John Sherman.
1 Apr. Slater and Surratt Dep for Potomac
3. Apr. Slater and Surratt arv D.C..
3 Apr. Dep D.C. for Canada.
6 Apr. Arv. Montreal 10:30 AM
Apr. Surrratt (and Slater) ORDERED to Elmira.
14 Apr. Surratt and Slater in Elmira.
18 Apr. Surratt and Slater arv. Montreal.
I'm submitting this as a favor to Laurie. Normally, I do not research for Researchers.

Thank you so much, John. I knew you'd come through for me!

This question arose because our researcher wanted to put Slater in Albany, NY, on March 23, not NYC. He had her at the St. Nicholas Hotel, which was a very ritzy hotel in Manhattan (only a tiny section of it still stands today, and few people know its history - google it). It was one of the targets of the Confederate Army of Manhattan in November of 1864, when terrorists tried to sabotage about 20 public places in the city.

One more question for John: Did Sarah stay at the St. Nicholas? Who paid for that expensive room? Want to bet it was in Judah Benjamin's budget?

In the researcher's research, he noted that Sarah was seen in Albany about 23 March 1865. I showed you that she was at another location on that date ---but suggested a possibility that she was there on a different date. I looked at my notes carefully, hoping I could offer a suggestion. VIOLA! Sarah was in Albany on one day - between April 14 and April 18. She changed trains, in Albany, on her return to Montreal. This confirms that she had been with Surratt in Elmira -and she was really the "little man" who traveled with Surratt. Does this get your researcher "off the hook"?
Extending this same information a little further - did Sarah change trains in Albany on her way to Elmira? That would have been earlier in April.