The Plot to Kill Jefferson Davis
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- Samuel Kingston, a Union surgeon and prisoner of war, languished in a dungeon on a late winter’s day in March 1864. The cell was in the basement of infamous Libby Prison in Richmond, Va., the capital of the Confederacy. He was there because of his involvement on a raid led by Col. Ulric Dahlgren that went horribly wrong. Here's the story.
Read my profile of Kingston in the New York Times: archive.nytime...
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Fascinating.
Excellent Ron another cracking video
Thank you sir..very informative. I enjoy these very much 👍
Very fascinating.
That was very interesting. Thank you
An interesting story and little known piece of history. thank you
Wow! What a terrible ordeal, all around.
It seems Hugh Kilpatrick earned his sobriquet Kill Cavalry rather well. He was a fairly controversial figure, to say the least.
Hard to believe Lincoln would have sanctioned an assassination.
If I were a skilled screenwriter, I would develop this story into a script for a movie of this story. But it probably would have had a better chance of making the silver screen many years ago than it would today.
I wonder what convinced his captors to let him go.
I suspect it may have ahd to do with him being close to death.
Northern army should have known if they do the slaves wrong just how badly they do them but God had the last words 🙏
Maybe "Little Kill" should've rethought this!!!
Yeah… you shouldn’t write that kind of stuff down. Maybe make that a verbal order . Great story.
"His cellmates were similarly affected [sic] ..." -- "afflicted" is better.
Hellmira.
The fate of the Black prisoners, while not known, would probably not be pleasant.
Even being on the union side during these raids it didn't fare much better for one black man, Martin Robinson. His fate is known. Dahlgren needed scouts to find his way around the roads during his raid. He used Robinson, a local as his guide. The night before their ride, the weather turned nasty, and when Robinson took Dahlgren to ford a river it was swollen and couldn't be crossed. An angry Dahlgren hung Robinson man!
@@delstanley1349Lookee here, You can't be talking about those blue coated marauding devil's like, remember they were Saintly rescuers of the bondsman.
Hell, their grandfather's and generations before were in Atlantic Middle Passage business- African slave trade!
So be careful what you say, because these modern day yankees get all up into their feelings when the truth comes out.
And dare not say anything bad about The Benevolent Tyrant!
DEO VINDICE- GOD AVENGES and The South will rise out of its ashes like The Phoenix. As a Cajun would say"l gua-ron-tee".
Did they take black prisoners?