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    He may have been ordered to capture or kill Jefferson Davis and members of his cabinet. Who was he?

    Question #75844. Asked by hohohaha. (Feb 14 07 5:40 AM)


    Sofie

    		Lieutenant Colonel B.D. Pritchard

    http://www.valstar.net/~jcraig/capture.htm

    Feb 14 07, 5:45 AM
    hohohaha

    		Hummm. Do you have a reference you can cite because that's not the name usually associated with this incident.

    Feb 14 07, 6:02 AM
    hohohaha

    		Oops, sorry, you do have a reference but it refers to the wrong incident. This one occurred around the time of the Richmond/Petersburg stalemate. Who was this other man.

    Feb 14 07, 6:04 AM
    Sofie

    		4th Michigan Cavalry: the regiment that captured Jefferson Davis.
    Commander: Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Dudley Pritchard Allegan, Allegan County, MI

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Michigan_Cavalry

    My previous link says the same.



    Feb 14 07, 6:07 AM
    Sofie

    		James H. Wilson

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Wilson#Cavalry_commands.

    If I'm wrong again, I give up ;)

    Feb 14 07, 6:14 AM
    hohohaha

    		Ulrich Dahlgren...After Dahlgren was killed in a failed Cavalry rain on Richmond papers were found on him indicating that he had been given orders to try and assasinate Jeff Davis. "The Dahlgren Papers" still intrigue historians and a lot of amateur historians speculate that this attempt on Davis might imply that John Wilkes Booth might have had some Confederate aid in planning his assasination of Lincoln (Confederate revenge for Dahlgren's failed attempt on Davis). There probably was no revenge aid given to Booth but "The Dahlgren Papers" are used as the basis for a lot of speculation.

    Feb 14 07, 8:24 AM

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