US Military Posts named for Confederate generals

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Isaac Surratt never left Maryland until Inauguration Day in 1861, shortly before the demise of the Pony Express. So far as we can guess, he signed on with Benjamin Franklin Ficklin's express company.

There's another interesting dude in the sidelines. Many think that Ficklin was the creator of the Pony Express idea. Three others came up with the money and beat him out. They did make him manager at first, until he got angry with them and quit. This man would later own Jefferson's Monticello before choking on a fish bone.