Decapitation of the Union

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(06-30-2015 10:50 AM)Rogerm Wrote:  The idea that George McClellan knew anything about this in advance is new to me. When did he return to the US? Were there people back then who wanted to accuse him of complicity in Lincoln's assassination?

McClellan left right at the war's end and didn't return until 1868. If (and that's a big assumption) he knew about the plot, how did he dare handle it during the Presidential campaign that he was waging while Booth was enlisting his cohorts in 1864?

I am also trying to figure out the source for Herold ever going to Canada. My book is at home, and I'm at work - and I don't want to damage any one of them in the gift shop.

I have to ask this, John...Have you read and been influenced by Rick Stelnick's Dixie Reckoning in any way?