Assassination Trivia

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(02-09-2020 05:59 PM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  Though I would disagree with Wikipedia's claim that he was arrested in connection to Lincoln's assassination. He, like the Confederate governors, seemed to have been arrested for treason charges connected to supporting the Confederacy.

Dave, while it was not my source, in this instance Wikipedia is correct. Gazaway Bugg Lamar’s arrest and incarceration were assassination-related. A man named “Lamar” (who was no doubt fictitious) was implicated in Lincoln’s assassination by Charles Dunham [see: Carman Cumming, Devil’s Game (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004), p. 163, etc.]. Based on that “evidence,” Edwin Stanton ordered the arrest of Gazaway Lamar in Savannah on April 28, 1865. He was transported to Washington and imprisoned in Old Capitol Prison for three months. [Robert Neil Mathis, “The Ordeal of Confiscation: The Post-Civil War Trials of Gazaway Bugg Lamar,” The Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 3, Fall 1979, p. 343.]