This week marks the anniversary of Robert E. Lee's surrender near the end of the Civil War. Southern California, part of a free state from its beginning, held profound Confederate sentiment in the 1860s and beyond.
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that s the one. booth recruits a fairly motley crew of confederate sympathizers. david herold is a pharmacist s assistant who knows the ins and outs of the city. he s also familiar with the maryland countryside, knows how to get out of town quickly. george atzerodt is a criminal smuggler. and last, lewis powell is a violent thug who fought and was wounded at gettysburg and also fought with partisan confederate raiders. there is something peculiar about those men. that pale one seems quite intent on listening to us. i fear there will be an uprising soon. doesn t he look familiar? i should hope not. he seems crazy. i believe he s an actor. [ chuckles ] and that only confirms his insanity. so, you re telling me that you plan to abduct the president?
As god gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation s wounds, to care for him. john wilkes booth saw the war ending, and southern honor was dying with the end of the war. he was going to kidnap president abraham lincoln and ransom him for the freedom of confederate soldiers, and that was his way of making sure that the war really wasn t going to end. booth taps into the underground network of confederate sympathizers in washington and maryland to assemble a team. why are you looking at that table? that s general grant s wife. the one in the white dress?
There s a will? confederate sympathizers opened up the dock yards and let them build in secret. the alabama was the big one. the biggest, the greatest, the best. sunk 64 federal ships. after the war in 1872, britain ended up paying $15 million in gold in reparations for not stopping the alabama from leaving britain shores. how close did britain come to intervening and look at what might have happened had they? i have no doubt first of all if britain had intervened on the begin og it was war on the side of the north, the south wouldn t have had a chance whatsoever. on the part of the south, the knot wouldn t have had a chance. they always entry once, once by default. and in 1862. people are saying, it s a disaster. people are dying. we must intervene. you ve written other great