72: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
History That Doesn't Suck
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Willie Jett and John Willocks
A telegram comes into the war office stating that two men were seen rowing across the potomac from maryland to virginia only five days ago. Edwin and lafayette assemble a team of 26 soldiers from the sixteenth new york cavalry to go after those men. The search party arrives in port royal less than 24 hours after john and davy, but they don't try to make friends with the locals. A free lack couple, william and betty rawlins, tell luther baker that they sawjohn and davy just yesterday. William and betty informed the blue clad soldiers that John and davy had been traveling with willie jett, a local
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