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L Verge · 09-17-2017, 12:13 PM

(09-16-2017 06:31 PM)Steve Wrote:
(09-16-2017 10:04 AM)L Verge Wrote: I think my memory is coming back regarding the supposed "Dr. Garland" who went south to serve as a doctor to Jefferson Davis -- and I owe everyone an apology. The Dr. Garland was actually Dr. AYP Garnett. From genealogytrails.com/main/jeffersondavis.html

"Jefferson Davis was lucky in that one of his Washington physicians was so pro-Southern in his sympathies that he felt it advisable for him to spend the war period in Richmond. There among his other services for the Confederacy was the care of the health of President Davis and his family.

"A.Y.P. Garnett
A".Y.P. Garnett was born Sept. 19, 1819, and died July 11, 1888. He was the son of Muscoe Garnett; was born on the Rappannock River in Essex County, Virginia. He graduated in medicine from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1841. On June 13, 1848, he married Mary E. Wise, a daughter of Henry A. Wise, governor of Virginia. He settled near Washington. D.C. where he enjoyed a large practice in the families of men prominent in public life, including the family of Senator Davis. In 1851 he had some service in connection with the U. S. Navy.
He removed from Washington to Richmond in 1861 and returned to Washington in 1865.
In Richmond he was personal physician to Jefferson Davis and served in two military hospitals. Later, he was president of the American Medical Association. He died at Rehobeth Beach, Delaware, of heart disease. Washington sketches of physicians teem with fine references to Dr. Garnett."

I now vaguely remember searching for Garland in the records of the St. Mary's County Historical Society and finding reference to the Peter Garland that Steve mentioned above. However, I could never make the connection with a later generation being in Southern Maryland and in a position to conspire with the original kidnapping or later murder of Lincoln -- even though many Southern Maryland planters would gladly have joined forces in the conspiracy, I'm sure.

Would like to know where Dr. Garnett lived while in the DC area.

I looked into the background of Dr. Alexander Y. P. Garnett and from what I can gather after he left Washington for Richmond, he became a doctor to Confederate VIPs in Richmond where he remained until the end of the war. Supposedly, he fled Richmond with Jefferson Davis but after General Johnston's surrender returned to Richmond. I found a copy of his parole taken in Richmond dated 26 April 1865:

I just don't see how it's possible Dr. Garnett could be the same person mentioned by Arnold or involved with Booth. Does anybody know the exact wording of what Arnold said about Dr. Garland?

I agree, Steve, and that's where our trail went cold. Unless Garnett was an inside man in Richmond (which medically, he certainly was with Lee, Johnston, and others on his medical rolls) serving as a liaison with Booth and/or his controllers, he does not seem to have ties to Southern Maryland.

Dr. Garnett is buried in DC's famous Rock Creek Cemetery (along with Gen. Pershing, John C, Fremont, and Joseph Bell Alexander of Brown and Alexander Undertakers (as in Lincoln's funeral).