Conspiracy Theory

[Gene Green]

what is your most interesting conspiracy story of the civil war period, concerning the ACW ?

 

[Bee]

I just read this the other day: There are those who believe that Stanton had something to do with Lincoln's assassination! I know nothing of the details, as I try to keep my studies within legitimate boundaries of fact

 

[Karacivilwarchild]

I just read this the other day: There are those who believe that Stanton had something to do with Lincoln's assassination! I know nothing of the details, as I try to keep my studies within legitimate boundaries of fact

Their is a bit of evidence that Stanton place someone that looked like booth in booths place

 

[Aussie Billy Sherman]

Yep probably the Stanton one. It seems to revolve around Colonel Baker's mysterious death, missing pages of Booth's diary and Booth and Stanton receiving money from the same source. Add to that, Booth visiting Andrew Johnson's place and leaving a calling card earlier in the day of the Lincoln assassination

 

[Pat Young]

I just read this the other day: There are those who believe that Stanton had something to do with Lincoln's assassination! I know nothing of the details, as I try to keep my studies within legitimate boundaries of fact

Lincoln assassination conspiracy theories are endless. Of course, there really was a conspiracy, Booth did not act alone. But there is a theory that the Jesuits were behind it because Lincoln had once represented an ex-priest.

 

[OpnCoronet]

Was secession of 1860-'61, the result of a decades long conspiracy?

 

[Aussie Billy Sherman]

Lincoln assassination conspiracy theories are endless. Of course, there really was a conspiracy, Booth did not act alone. But there is a theory that the Jesuits were behind it because Lincoln had once represented an ex-priest.

That religious conspiracy has always seemed crazy to me

 

[E_just_E]

The murder of Stonewall Jackson with motives either because of revenge by wronged subordinates or because deeply inside he was "a friend of the black people" and the highers up did not like it. Heard both versions.

 

[Rio Bravo]

The murder of Stonewall Jackson with motives either because of revenge by wrong subordinates or because deeply inside he was "a friend of the black people" and the highers up did not like it. Heard both versions.

I know that Jackson was the only CSA General to be honoured in a Black Church, but I have never heard of any Conspiracy theories about his death !

 

[BillO]

That Stanton didn't have anything to do with Lincoln getting shot.

 

[E_just_E]

I know that Jackson was the only CSA General to be honoured in a Black Church, but I have never heard of any Conspiracy theories about his death !

They are there. There is almost as much written for the shooting of Jackson as for the shooting of Kennedy, grassy knolls and all. Also, lots of stories about how he injured his lungs when he was allegedly dropped on his way to the hospital, being the reason for pneumonia. There was even a story that named an individual boasting that he was the one who killed him. Lots of stories.

Quickly googled: Stonewall Jackson murdered, and found this gem:
Unfriendly Fire: the Murder of "STONEWALL" JACKSON. The Confederacy's Best Kept Secret

 

[Schwallanscher]

what is your most interesting conspiracy story of the civil war period, concerning the ACW ?

that needs to be gen. sir harry flashman, vc at harpers ferry and fighting for both the us and the confederates

 

[Rio Bravo]

They are there. There is almost as much written for the shooting of Jackson as for the shooting of Kennedy, grassy knolls and all. Also, lots of stories about how he injured his lungs when he was allegedly dropped on his way to the hospital, being the reason for pneumonia. There was even a story that named an individual boasting that he was the one who killed him. Lots of stories.

Quickly googled: Stonewall Jackson murdered, and found this gem:
Unfriendly Fire: the Murder of "STONEWALL" JACKSON. The Confederacy's Best Kept Secret

That's an interesting link EjE ! I have always wondered why Major John Decatur Barry, who gave the order to fire on Jackson & his Staff, was promoted to Colonel of the 18th NC soon after the shooting and yet Barry apparently died of a broken heart for his part in Jackson's death just two years later!

 

[MaryDee]

There are more conspiracy threads in the "Similar Threads" list below, starting with "Mary Lincoln Killed the President. . ."

 

[Berry Canote]

The best one that I have heard is that the American South had been preparing for war for a decade or more. That is, they were stockpiling weapons, getting military officers in key positions, and so forth. I find that one hard to swallow as they could barely arm the Confederate Army when the war began. Had there been a conspiracy I think they would have been better prepared.

 

[Waterloo50]

Not so much a conspiracy but more of a strange claim which was made by a Seattle Attorney Andrew Basiago.
He claims that he was part of Project Pegasus, a U.S government program that he claims worked on teleportation and time travel under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Basiago said he experienced eight different time travel technologies during his stint in the program. Mostly, he said, his travel involved a teleporter based on technical papers supposedly found in pioneering mechanical engineer Nikola Tesla's New York City apartment after his death in January 1943.

The machine consisted of two gray elliptical booms about eight feet tall, separated by about 10 feet, between which a shimmering curtain of what Tesla called 'radiant energy' was broadcast," Basiago said. "Radiant energy is a form of energy that Tesla discovered that is latent and pervasive in the universe and has among its properties the capacity to bend time-space." Basiago said project participants would jump through this field of radiant energy into a vortal tunnel and "when the tunnel closed, we found ourselves at our destination."

Basiago claimed he can be seen in a photograph of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg in 1863, which he said he visited in 1972 via a plasma confinement chamber located in East Hanover, N.J. had been dressed in period clothing, as a Union bugle boy," he said. "I attracted so much attention at the Lincoln speech site at Gettysburg — wearing over-sized men's street shoes — that I left the area around the dais and walked about 100 paces over to where I was photographed in the Josephine Cogg image of Lincoln at Gettysburg." (The boy on the left in the photo below).

Being sent back in time to the same place and moment, but from different starting points in the present, allowed two of himself to be in Ford's Theatre at the same time in 1865.

"After the first of these two encounters with myself occurred, I was concerned that my cover might be blown," he recalled. "Unlike the jump to Gettysburg, in which I was clutching a letter to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles to offer me aid and assistance in the event I was arrested, I didn't have any explanatory materials when I was sent to Ford's Theatre."
In addition, Basiago said he travelled to Ford's Theatre the night of Lincoln's assassination on five or six occasions. "I did not, however, witness the assassination," he said. "Once, I was on the theatre level when he was shot and I heard the shot followed by a great commotion that arose from the crowd. It was terrible to hear."

 

[Gene Green]

my favorite involves the "Lost Confederate Gold".

http://clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/articles/society/confederate_gold.htm

 

[Schwallanscher]

Not so much a conspiracy but more of a strange claim which was made by a Seattle Attorney Andrew Basiago.
He claims that he was part of Project Pegasus, a U.S government program that he claims worked on teleportation and time travel under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

as you correctly assumed no conspiracy here, just your garden variety fruitcake

 

[Waterloo50]

as you correctly assumed no conspiracy here, just your garden variety fruitcake

But he's an Attorney.

 

[Schwallanscher]

But he's an Attorney.

mutually exclusive?