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There has been speculation that Ficklin was the man who hired the Surratts' oldest son, Isaac, to work for his express company moving westward in 1861. Isaac left home on Inauguration Day in 1861, and records just indicate that he worked for an express agency. For years, historians kept trying to make this the Pony Express (which has no record of him and was pretty much out of business by 1861). By 1862, Isaac was in service to the Confederacy in the Texas region.

We also surmise that the Surratt Tavern was one of his brief stops as Ficklin fled DC