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John Surratt
05-06-2013, 07:25 PM
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(05-05-2013 06:42 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I think Harney answered to a different handler than Booth -- and I wish that Jane Singer would sign in on this one because she is one of the best authorities on Thomas Harney.

Hi all,

So glad to be part of this forum and thanks, Laurie, for your kind words. Yes, I would agree that becasue Harney was one of the last Torpedo Bureau operatives left in Richmond at the fall of the city, he was dispatched by either Gabriel Rains or Samuel Gooch Leitch, the acting bureau head at the time. Leitch was a wild one and a friend of Snyder's. According to a letter Leitch wrote young Snyder, the Bureau was cooking up and soliciting "projects" of all kinds the summer before.

I believe as well that Thomas Summers of Elijah White's Cavalry was assigned to Harney as an escort as they were captured separately. My book The Confederate Dirty War details my discovery of Summers. He and Harney were captured separately, not with the Mosby scratch Company "H." bunch.

I'm not sure Booth's plan and Harney's were at all related, though I pondered this over and over at the time I wrote my book.
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