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[Susan Higginbotham]

I have seen it stated in several places that Ficklin had contact with Atzerodt, but what is the source for that?

Personally, I doubt that Ficklin was involved in the assassination. His primary interest in April 1865 seems to have been to get his cotton out of the South, with the help of Browning and Singleton, and a dead Lincoln wouldn't have helped in that regard. Mary's sister Emily Helm was also trying to get her cotton at that time, and Ficklin brought some papers to Washington for her that she had left in Richmond.