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[John Fazio]

(07-08-2018 10:52 PM)Gene C Wrote:  

(07-08-2018 08:41 PM)John Fazio Wrote:  As for the whistle, Mosby always wore a metal fox whistle on a ribbon around his neck, and there is substantial evidence of their use in and around Ford's on the night of the assassination.

John

Can you elaborate on this substantial evidence?

Gene:

See pp. 355 and 356 of Decapitating the Union for a half dozen or so reports and references to whistles heard in the vicinity of Ford's Theatre on the fateful night. See also, re Mosby's whistle, Guttridge and Neff's Dark Union (an otherwise bad book, in my opinion), p. 123 (two references); Jeffrey D. Wert's Mosby's Rangers, pp. 146, 147; and Virgil Carrington Jones's Ranger Mosby.

John

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(07-09-2018 01:07 AM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  It does seem odd that if Ficklin was part of the scheme, his talents seem to have been under-utilized (to put it mildly). Why assign Atzerodt to the task of killing Johnson when Ficklin was available?

Susan:

To say that he was part of the conspiracy does not mean he was part of Booth's action team. Clearly, he was not. More likely his role had something to do with an attack or attacks on other Union leaders, e.g. Stanton. Remember that the T.I.O.S. letter said that there was one assassin assigned to every member of Lincoln's cabinet, and remember, too, that "Johnston's" letter said that 15 Yankees were to have been taken out. And remember, finally, that Powell told Eckert that it was his "impression" that others had been assigned to do to other Federal officeholders what he had been assigned to do to Seward.

John