The Montreal Link

[Barry Sheehy]

(06-24-2018 10:47 AM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  Steve, I picked up your book yesterday. Looks fascinating!

Your book mentions a photograph of Benjamin F. Ficklin being in the McCord Collection. Do you have a copy of it? I'd love to see it.

Susan, Sorry for the delay but I am working on a new paper on Booth in Montreal and busy with business. I am not as retired as I would like to be. The photograph in the Notman collection is of Ficklin's partner and friend Finney, who was involved in the CSS in Canada. He was in Montreal to take part in the raid to free prisoners on Johnson Island; a mission that was eventually aborted. Ficklin does I believe turn up at St Lawrence Hall and admitted during his post assassination interrogation that he had been in Canada dealing with Beverley Tucker regarding cotton on behalf of Brown Brothers of NYC and London.
B