Incident at an Antique Store

[Wild Bill]

I listened to the hour and a half presentation by Conroy and I essentially agree that Jeff Davis went on with the Hampton Roads conference to make the South realize that they had to fight on as there was no other course. Although he did not say it, I think Lincoln did much the same, shutting up Democrat dissidents and Horace Greeley and forcing the North to go on to complete victory.

The Southern side is presented in Last Confederate Heroes, I, 325-29. This was all coordinated and presented to the public at the African Church in Richmond by none other than Laurie's favorite eminence grise, Sec of State Judah P. Benjamin, to give Jeff Davis plausible deniability. I believe that Eli N Evans' bio of Benjamin, which I used and recommend, goes into all of this.

My MA Thesis was on the Union Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign. My PhD was on the US Army in Texas Reconstruction. I expanded my PhD after it was published with a second volume on the Freedmen'a Bureau in Texas Reconstruction. Both those books are anathema in Texas academic circles. Now as Yosemite Sam would say, Back off, varmints!!