Sgt. Harry H, Brogden

[John Stanton]

(09-01-2012 06:08 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I suspect Judah Benjamin of having many devious plans - including a hand in the capture of Lincoln. Maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand why passes would be needed for seven men and a captured Lincoln to be landed in Virginia???

I can understand why the Confederacy wanted to stop deserters by demanding passes; I never realized that the men like Atzerodt and Jones who ferried people under cover of night across the river would be asking for passes before they would start rowing???

Guess I'm going to have to spend the winter re-reading Come Retribution and April '65. I've taken a lot of heat for supporting the Tidwell, Hall, Gaddy theories over the past twenty years. Maybe it's because I was raised military, but their reasonings about the whole Lincoln capture/assassination stories are the ones that make the most sense.

Laurie. I am the dense one. I did not write my thoughts clearly. Brogden's camp was under Benjamin, and Benjamin wrote the Passport rules. Cawood's Camp (The Tennant Farm) was not bound by Benjamin's rules. So, Jones sent Booth to "A Bridge", to wait to be found. If none came, then see Mrs Q. "I THINK SHE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU. Atzerodt was aware of the rules. He took Gus Howell, Slater, and Fowle to the Tennant Farm. Fowell said he left immediately and Howell and Slater stuck around a few days. From Tennant's on, they were on their own - no help
I am not contradicting anything in "C.R". You know I was "Trained" by that trio. I even have parts in "C. R." The abducted Lincoln was to cross from the Nanjemoy to an area further up river from cawood - No Passport needed. It is difficult putting this info into a nut shell.