Surratt Courier

[Dennis Urban]

(07-19-2019 07:36 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(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.

Excellent research and update Rick!
I was not aware of the Clancey statement either. Being curious about him, quick research shows him in American Brutus though spelled Clancy, as being a Captain on the staff of Colonel Timothy Ingraham,"provost marshal of the Defenses North of the Potomac, with jurisdiction over the area north and east of the city" and "much hardened by the war." See pages 50 and 465. I surmise that Captain Clancey interrogated Owens at the request of Ingraham and taking a cue from Ingraham pressed Owens greatly thus arriving at his assessment of Owens. I do not have The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence. I wonder if it contains the entire memo written by Clancey; that might be enlightening.