Thomas Jones

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Staying a bit off topic, I thought that one of the possible kidnap plans from the same time period as the Booth one and possibly coordinated with it was the use of Mosby and his men on the other side of Washington, DC....between maybe the late summer and fall of 1864 to the spring of 1865...Was that in Conrad's memoirs? And while they said Mosby had recently disbanded, essentially wasn't that his modus opperandi?

While the War was essentially over with Lee's surrender, there was still action being carried out in some places, wasn't there? Wouldn't Lincoln's assassination been considered a bit of a game changer? At least, if they didn't want devastating reparations for the South, wouldn't they want to try to clean up the mess and have some control over the fallout?

I'll put this next tidbit under John Minchin Lloyd, to keep this one on task..just an interesting "connection...?"

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...but it may have to do with damage control...as with a few other participants...in the Military Tribunal....