Posted on 03/26/2019 8:09:13 AM PDT by mbarker12474
That would be their grandfathers, Jedidiah Clapper, Nathanial Brennan, Cornelius Comey, and Phineas McCabe. Or so I’m told...
I went to school for two years at Surattsville High School!
I dated a girl for a very short time named Mary Mudd, the great-great grandaughter of Samuel Mudd, who set John Wilkes Booth’s leg...
No, Salem witch trials although they were not the first either.
There’s evidence that Mudd ran a Confederate rat line for the Confederate Secret Service but none that he was part of the Lincoln conspiracy. Booth just knew the Mudd rat line existed and used it to get away. How much Mudd knew of Booth’s action is difficult to say. I don’t remember if he ever acknowledge knowing Booth before he was arrested. Surratt was probably railroaded. In her case it was likely revenge because Booth was not there to hang.
Read “Come Retribution & April 65 by William Tidwell” both on the Confederate Secret Service. “Come Retribution” focuses on the CSS & the Lincoln assassination, it hypothesizes that the Lincoln assassination was originally a CSS kidnapping OP gone bad. The original goal was to kidnap Lincoln to force a negotiated end & the release of Confederate POWs. The South collapsed before Booth could get the OP completely organized. Instead of standing down Booth went ahead and turned the kidnapping OP into a major assassination operation, basically a decapitation OP. SOS, VP & P were all targeted- only the P action worked.
Notice that was US GOV.
I seriously doubt she was the first woman executed in the US. Plenty of time for that.
Haha, thanks. True.
I’d been looking for the one where the soldier holds a parasol over Surrat ascending the scaffold, IIRC.
The US was not a country then.
But I seriously doubt she was the first woman executed IN the USA, proper.
I am very familiar with the government under president lincoln being in operating since the last 1700s. Of course it is US government, but not the witch trials.
It should be easily recorded t know if it is a fact and I have reddit reported so a dozen times form several sources.
In the south?
It was in Maryland...I used to wait for my bus in front of the old Mary Surratt house that was full of broken beer bottles and fires had been lit in the middle of one of the rooms. I have heard the site was renovated!
I really liked Mary Mudd...she was cute, and I went to a 4-H meeting with her one time (I had no idea what 4-H was!)
LOL, I haven’t seen THAT in a while...
Pay attention Leftist Scumbags. LOL!
The Salem trials were conducted by the Province of Massachusetts Bay, long before there was a Federal government.
I want history preserved regardless of who or what the person is. I am unionist and still want the confederate history preserved.
Interesting...I was always interested in him as a physician, and his work in handling a Yellow Fever epidemic put him in good stead.
This rubbish of social justice warriors wanting to deface and destroy Confederate monuments and symbols enrages me.
The Civil War was one of the most transformative and significant events in this country. The men who fought, suffered, and died for the Confederacy fought tenaciously and bravely, and they were our brothers, our countrymen.
What those men did, and the memory of it, is as important to who we became as a country as any other single thing.
I always thought Ulysees S. Grant put it best for me:
“I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.”
Point is, most of those men in the Confederacy, when asked why they were fighting, instead of citing the institution of slavery, would likely have said "Because you're here" or something along those lines.
Actually if you look carefully it appears that a few sections have given way and several people fell through.
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