Railroad Repairman

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The story of John Ulle
https://www.beltsvillenewstoday.com/post...beltsville

Ulle's neighbor's at Locust Grove. https://www.beltsvillenewstoday.com/post...lle-4-of-4

The same George Emack stabbed a Union soldier named William Walker at J.C Thompson's hotel in T.B., Maryland. This was the hotel where David Herold hid arms for the attempted kidnapping of President Lincoln.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024735/...rot=0&sp=3

Contrary to newspaper accounts, William Walker did not die when he was stabbed by George Emack

From the obituary of William Walker.
During the rebellion, he was commissioned by General Mansfield to go to the village of T.B. in (near) Charles County, Maryland, to capture a Confederate spy named (George) Emack. With the assistance of a regiment of cavalry he captured his man. Emack escaped, and in doing so stabbed Prof. Walker in the abdomen, inflicting a wound from which he recovered after a long stay in the hospital. This Emack was afterwards placed in command at Libby Prison. The sun (New York [N.Y.]), April 13, 1875 | Library of Congress..

Statement
Louis Wiechmann,

When Howell was Mrs. Surratt's, he gave the name of Spencer. They refused to tell me his right name, but afterward learned from John Surratt that his name was Augustus Howell. His nickname in the house was Spencer.
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This man fears the name Spencer very much. I know not why.
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He was once confined to the Old Capitol. I know not under what name.
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I heard him (Howell) say in the parlor (at Mrs. Surratt's) that he took a pair of gold Spurs from the residents of Prince George's Co. as a present for R.E Lee. I am quite certain that Capt. Gwynn (near T.B.) knows everything about him and the spurs as he has been secreted at his house once or twice and can tell more about the man than I.
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When I came into prison here, he threatened me and said that I should not say anything against him else it would be worse for me and that he was afraid of being implicated in the conspiracy plot.
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There is a man named Augustus S. Howell ( a notorious rebel) who visited the house of Mrs. Surratt and on one occasion brought a Mrs. Slater who was running the blockade...he has the reputation of being the most notorious blockade runner ever crossed the Potomac.

After Wiechmann's testimony, William Walker wrote,

"I see from the testimony of Wiechmann given yesterday in the Conspiracy case that "Howell" has figured among the conspirators and that he is now in prison. Now, this (Augutsus) "Howell" is the (George) Emack who stabbed me. "Howell" was an alias by which he went at the time. He is of the family Emack which resides, probably now as in 1861, about 12 miles this side of Washington on the Washington branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad..

This "Howell" or Emack in 1861 was a spy, was so at the time I arrested him, was subsequently a subordinate of General Winder, was in charge at Libby Prison and was the tyrant there who tortured Union prisoners under his charge. Thinking this information may be important as a guide in the inquiry pending, I communicate it to you to be furnished to the proper office.

One day after the assassination of President Lincoln, George Emack's mother (Margaret) wrote in her diary... we must leave our home.. we know "Come Retribution" George is an acquaintance of John Wilkes Booth.

It's kind of interesting that George Emack's mother knew the code to the secret confederate cipher.

https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussi...age-2.html

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A link to the story of Lee's gold spurs.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82006687/...97,0.324,0