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09-19-2012, 07:53 PM
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I don't know much about the Hyams story except that the child's father, Godfrey Hyams, worked for the Canadian Confederates for awhile (probably to earn money) and was a sympathizer enough to name his son after the famous general.

When times got tough, however, Hyams traded his sympathies to the North and later became a witness at the 1865 Conspiracy Trial as part of the attempt to show that the assassination was spearheaded by the Confederacy in Richmond and Canada.

Kieran can probably add a lot to this. And, John Stanton is good at tracking those covert operations between Richmond and Montreal. Did I come close to telling the story?

A gentleman by the name of Charles Hyams (recently deceased, I believe) talked to both Joan Chaconas and I years ago while in the process of writing a book that I cannot remember the name of right now. I never got enough nerve to ask him if he was related to Godfrey.
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