The Dahlgren Raid

[Pamela]

(06-03-2015 03:05 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Mr. Hall used to pose the question as to who had the authority to approve the assassination of a head of state except another head of state...

Hall, Tidwell, Gaddy, John, and Jane Singer have made large dents in trying to "decipher" the Confederate secret service, but there's a lot still left unknown. I remember Bill Tidwell once saying that his portion of Come Retribution was going to be a textbook on how to build an espionage force. He swore that the French Resistance during WWII studied the Confederate system and knew more about it than Americans.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought the Union and Lincoln didn't consider Davis a head of state since they didn't regard the Confederacy as a country, just the southern states in rebellion. Had the South won, I guess Davis would have been a head of state.