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(07-19-2019 06:57 PM)Steve Wrote:  I just received the August 2019 Surratt Courier in the mail and I really want to commend Rick Smith's article, an updated reprint of his earlier October 2007 on the James Owens statement. I wasn't a member of the Surratt Society when it was originally printed and am glad to get a chance to read it now. (Even if I had been a member of the Society then, I was in Iraq then, so I might have missed it anyway.)

I wasn't aware of the 01 May 1865 memorandum by M. A. Clancey about Owens and his testimony.

I'm just adding a note of appreciation to Steve, whose locating Old Capitol Prison death and burial records spurred Rick to update his original article from 2007. I also suggested to Rick that he writes so well that he should be contributing more articles to the Courier... He is really a very good, all-around historian on the Civil War era. And, when he joins forces with his team of Wild Bill Richter and Bill Binzel, that triumvirate will set your brain a-spinning.