Jefferson Davis and the Conspiracy

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Wittenberg's research was among what I searched also, Susan, when I decided to post the Southern Historical Papers. There is a part of me that wants to suspect Kilpatrick and Dahlgren concocting this on their own, especially when you read the speech that Dahlgren had prepared for his men. That speech smacks of the same kind of heroics as Booth's diary.

Another part of me agrees that Stanton - and even Seward - could have sanctioned it. But, the other part says that they would not have placed Lincoln in such a position to have to explain the assassination of Davis. Did Gideon Welles ever write anything in his diary about it, since he "commanded" Dahlgren's father?

And finally, that was a fantastic post, Scott!