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[RJNorton]

(07-20-2017 08:27 PM)Gene C Wrote:  At last, however, Stanton assigned a War Department attache, Major Henry Reed Rathbone to the task.
(I don't recall reading that before)

I agree, Gene. Wasn't it Mary Lincoln's idea? I think it was she who invited her friend, Clara Harris, and her then fiancé, Henry Rathbone, to attend the theater with the Lincolns.