Decapitation of the Union

[Wild Bill]

Buy it, John. As a retired attorney, you can afford it, I dare say. Stop relying on others to do your homework. He basically looks at the Lincoln assassination through the eyes of an Alabama man from unseceded Winston County (home of the 1st Ala Union Cavalry, Sherman's bodyguard in the March to the Sea) who acted as a spy for Grant, gave Booth his derringer in Montgomery (why he had only one instead of the usual pair), was familiar with Texas Unionists like AJ Hamilton, was familiar with the so-called New York faction which competed with Booth for the assassination (I believe it was Atzerodt who mentioned them), and looks at the Old Dutch and European Netherlands financial connections to the American Civil War. It is as outlandish as your book, and he is as positive he is correct as you are. You will love and despise him at the same time--you know, sort of like you and me.