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If I have even come close, riddle me this - What man who is suspected of having ties to the kidnap/assassination of Lincoln was sent to London as a Confederate purchasing agent involved in the cotton trade? And, in 1865, what infamous American fled to a sister city of Manchester in the UK? What was the city?

Benjamin Ficklin? John Surratt/Liverpool?

Absolutely correct, Susan. Now let's wait and see if I am correct as to what AussieMick is looking for.

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Forgot to add to the Raphael Semmes answer that he was born a hop-skip-and-a-jump from me in Charles County, Maryland, near the escape route used by Booth. And, as Roger mentioned, he was a graduate of Charlotte Hall Military Academy in adjacent St. Mary's County (alma mater to many of my male ancestors from the 1700s until its closing in the 1970s.)