Correspondence regarding Walker Taylor's proposed plan to kidnap Abraham Lincoln, 1889-1898.

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Correspondence regarding Walker Taylor's proposed plan to kidnap Abraham Lincoln, 1889-1898.

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In a letter, 1889 August 31, to Walker Taylor, Jefferson Davis recollects the incident, particularly his declining to endorse it as he thought Lincoln would be killed in the attempt. In a letter 1898 March 14, to Henry T. Louthan, William Preston Johnston recollects the informal conversation between Davis and Taylor, and states that George Alfred Townsend's published account of the incident is incorrect. In a letter 1898 July 31, to Louthan, Virginia Taylor requests that Louthan leave out of his proposed article any suggestion that her father would have killed Lincoln.

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Johnston, William Preston, 1831-1899.

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