What Was The Role of David Herold

[JMadonna]

Jacob Thompson telling the New York Times, on November 20, 1883, that he had decided not to write his life's story, because if he did, it would "utterly ruin" at least one man who had the confidence of the Union government at the time of the Canadian commission and at the same time had aided the Confederacy; that man was still in Congress. (Charles Higham, Murdering Mr. Lincoln, pp. 236, 237


Well I would guess he was referring to Benjamin Wood or Sunset Cox of New York. Though neither men had the confidence of the Union government.