Was Stanton a murder target?

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Personally, I think the idea that it was Michael at Stanton's door is pure speculation - even at that time when the U.S. government was trying to pin anything and everything on the Confederacy.

I am beginning to agree with you, Laurie. I was on the fence, but if O'Laughlen were definitely not an assassin, I wonder why he would be sent to scout Stanton and Grant. This is not the same as Powell's scouting at Seward's IMO.

I believe that Mike Kauffman suggests that O'Laughlen might have considered warning Stanton.

Kauffman thinks that it is far more likely that O'Laughlen, rather than wanting to attack Stanton (or Grant), wanted to warn them of Booth’s plot …IMO pure speculation.