My Journey on Lincoln's Assassination

[RJNorton]

(01-22-2019 04:53 PM)GustD45 Wrote:  If I remember the history of that time didn't Judah Benjamin burn all of his papers before he died in Paris, France?

Yes, Gust. In his biography of Benjamin, Eli Evans writes:

"For reasons that puzzle historians, Benjamin burned his personal papers--some as he escaped from Richmond in 1865 and almost all of the rest just before he died--because he left only six scraps of paper at his death." One historian called him a "virtual incendiary."