- Joined
- Oct 10, 2012
- Location
- Mt. Jackson, Va
Jefferson Davis appointed two men (Jacob Thompson and Clement Clay) to head the Confederate Secret Service in February 1864.
----$5 million appropriated by Confederate Congress to fund CSS
----Operations based largely in Canada
The Confederate Secret Service planned or engaged in numerous acts of terrorism or biological warfare.
---Raid on St. Alban's, Vermont
---Fires started in New York City hotels (Election Day plot of 1864)
---Plot to poison New York City water supply
---Plot to infect Union soldiers and citizens with smallpox and yellow fever
---Plot to kidnap Lincoln and hold until Confederate soldiers released
---Plot to blow up White House
Do you believe that J.W. Booth was affiliated with the CSS and that Davis secretly authorized the plot to kill Lincoln?