Mosby's Men in Southern Maryland

[Laurie Verge]

I have also run across a reference to Col. Sothoron's son, Webster, being commissioned a lieutenant in the C.S.A. early in the war and then being in Baltimore a great deal in civilian clothes and walking freely among the Yanks. That leads me to suspect that he was a Confederate operative who used his links to St. Mary's County to get cover for Mosby's men in the final days.

I'm sorry, but I just don't see how historians can completely ignore the Confederate hierarchy in this final scheme against Lincoln. They were sure in on other related plots, some sanctioned and some not.