Sanford Conover.

[Barry Sheehy]

(07-07-2018 06:20 PM)Steve Wrote:  The Sanford Conover who is buried in Bath National Cemetery is not the same person as the perjurer Charles A. Dunham using the alias Sanford Conover but of a man actually named Sanford Conover from the Buffalo area who enlisted in the 98th New York Infantry as a teenager during the Civil War.

The con-artist Charles A. Dunham died on July 15, 1900 in Rutherford, New Jersey:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZCP-PXX

Here is Dunham in the 1880 census:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN8D-SNP

and the 1900 census:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9NV-RWY

I hope this is helpful!

Steve,
Great research and information on Conover/Dunham/Wallace. He appears to have ties to Edwin Stanton that predate the war. He was a double agent or at least applied to be one in 1864/65. He was a brilliant con artist, utterly without scruples. He certainly appears to be close to Confederate activities in Montreal and, directly or indirectly, learned about Confederate plans to cause mayhem in the US, including plans to kidnap or murder Lincoln. What I find intriguing is that when he was arrested for unpaid debts in Canada, Edwin Stanton moved heaven and earth to have him rescued and returned to the US so he could testify at the trial of the Lincoln Conspirators. He sent General Dix, the senior ranking officer in the North East to Montreal on an emergency mission, along with a blank check book, to get him out. No similar effort was made to secure the testimony of any other witnesses at the trail. All very curious.
B