WAS JOHN WILKES BOOTH A PAID ASSASSIN????

[L.C. BAKER]

Official U.S. Military reports that are available to read on line that support, "special weapons confiscated from K.G.C. members with a substance (Greek Fire) inside of special bullets that required a percussion cap on the end. This was going to be used to fire the town up and burn it down. There was a spy that turned the K.G.C. Rebels in before the plan could be fully hatched. The Rebels were arrested and the riffles, pistols, and special ammo, were all confiscated by Union Army and Police.
L.C. Baker

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You can find the Military reports at this link. L.C. Baker

 

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From what i read it depended on who it was and what they were selling, and who they were selling it to. All trade was held to U.S. Government standards (control). However there were several K.G.C. businesses, that looked like every day mercantile that were owned by several different parties on paper, but they all were purchased, funded, and ran by the K.G.C.. This allowed the K.G.C. to order mass quantities of goods (without drawing U.S. Government suspicion) to supply their mercantile businesses to sell out the front door to the public for money to fund the rebellion, as well as taking goods out the back door to supply a needy Rebel army with what they needed.
As far as dealing in cotton, it was who you were and who you knew. Take for instance Mary Todd Lincoln's Sister. Orville Browning a so called Republican (copperhead)senator from Illinois helped her get by (under the U.S. control) with selling cotton during a time when it was prohibited to do so without the U.S. Governments consent.
L.C. Baker

How many do you suppose continued their business affairs that had no KGC connection at all? The war between the states was a crazy affair as there were many north-south businesses still in operation, i.e., northern banks were holding southern loans and vice-verse, etc. Smuggling was also a huge business for some.

 

[L.C. BAKER]

How many do you suppose continued their business affairs that had no KGC connection at all? The war between the states was a crazy affair as there were many north-south businesses still in operation, i.e., northern banks were holding southern loans and vice-verse, etc. Smuggling was also a huge business for some.

I agree with you, that the k.G.C. was not the only gang in town trying to control it. Also I agree that there was a lot of black market trading going on between the North and South that had nothing to do with the K.G.C. What I want you to realize, is that the Knights of the Golden Circle built the town and placed the laws and wrote their own constitution. Just look at Lecompton Kansas and it's beginnings. The whole thing was already set up until Buchanan's new Governor backed out on him. He was no fool he knew he would be killed by the abolitionist or radical Republicans if he tried to enforce the constitution they had written for Kansas. The territorial legislature that consisted mostly of slave-owners, met at the designated capital of Lecompton in September 1857 to produce a rival document. Free-state supporters, who comprised a large majority of actual settlers, boycotted the vote. President James Buchanan's appointee as territorial governor of Kansas, Robert J. Walker, although a strong defender of slavery, opposed the blatant injustice of the Constitution and resigned rather than implement it. This new constitution enshrined slavery in the proposed state and protected the rights of slaveholders. In addition, the constitution provided for a referendum that allowed voters the choice of allowing more slaves to enter the territory.
The K.G.C.'s main goal in life was to force the abolitionist out of Kansas. It is where John Brown hacked up and killed slave owners and Jim Lane who moved to the Kansas Territory in 1855 immediately became involved in the abolitionist movement. Lane was often called the leader of the Jay hawkers, a leading Free Soil militant group. This is what Kansas started bleeding with.
L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Appointed Governor of Kansas Territory in April 1857, but resigned in December 1857; United States financial agent to Europe 1863-1864;

Walker was a speculator in cotton, land and slaves.



He became politically prominent during the nullification crisis, and from 1836 to 1845 he sat in the United States Senate as a Unionist Democrat. (copperhead) Being an ardent expansionist, he voted for the recognition of the Republic of Texas in 1837 and for the joint annexation resolution of 1845, and advocated the nomination and election of James K. Polk in 1844. (slave owning president) Walker favored the award of public lands to new states; endorsed a low tariff; opposed distribution of the federal surplus funds for fear of creating an excuse to raise tariff rates; and, significantly, supported the independent Treasury system idea. He also opposed the Bank of the United States. All of which fits the profile of the K.G.C.'s intentions during that specific period of time. Walker was a passionate defender of slavery, both for economic benefits, and because he believed Negroes would fall into turpitude or insanity without firm masters. He claimed that independent Texas had to be annexed to prevent it from falling into the hands of Great Britain, which would use it to spread subversion throughout the South. He warned northerners that if Britain succeeded in undermining slavery, the freedmen would go north, where "the poor-house and the jail, the asylums of the deaf and dumb, the blind, the idiot and insane, would be filled to overflowing." (K.G.C. sentiments)
As Treasury Secretary, Walker financed the Mexican-American War and drafted the 1849 bill to establish the United States Department of the Interior. He supported the Union cause during the American Civil (?) War and in 1863 and 1864, as financial agent of the United States, did much to create confidence in Europe in the financial resources of the United States. During this time Walker was instrumental in securing a loan of $250,000,000 from the German Confederation. One example of financing the Mexican-American war can be seen in correspondence; he wrote to Major General William Orlando Butler, "February 23, 1848. Sir, Upon the ratification of a treaty of peace by the Republic of Mexico in conformity with the provisions of the act of the congress of the United States of America approved March 3, 1847 stated 'an act making further appropriation to bring the existing war with Mexico to a speedy and honorable conclusion' you are authorized to draw on this department for any sum not exceeding three millions of dollars to be paid in pursuance of the promotion of said act." He also supported the independent Treasury system, pushed for a tariff for revenue, and established a warehousing system for handling imports that has had lasting influence. (Rebel Supplies in mass quantity were obtained this way)
The Tariff of 1842, or Black Tariff as it became known, was a protectionist tariff schedule adopted in the United States to reverse the effects of the Compromise Tariff of 1833. The Compromise Tariff contained a provision that successively lowered the tariff rates from their level under the Tariff of 1832 over a period of ten years until the majority of dutiable goods were to be taxed at 20%. As the 20% level approached in 1842, industrial interests and members of the Whig Party began clamoring for protection, claiming that the reductions left them vulnerable to European competition. The bill restored protection and raised average tariff rates to almost 40%.
The bill stipulated sweeping changes to the tariff schedule and collection system, most of which were designed to augment its protective character. The law replaced most ad valorem rates with specific duties assessed on a good-by-good basis. It also repealed the credit system of tariff finance and replaced it with a cash payment system, collected at portside customs houses. ( Copperheads loved cash) Walker County, Texas, was named in his honor. However, due to his support of the Union during the Civil War, the Texas Legislature withdrew the honor and honored Samuel Walker, a Texas Ranger, instead. This kind of thing can not be helped if you can't tell everybody you are a copperhead. They will start to believe you really are not one of them (Democrat) and loose faith in your policy.
L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

1856; serial number 59492
Owner: Kansas Territorial Governor Robert J. Walker
Inscribed: Gov. R.J. Walker / Col. Colt’s Compliments
Manufacturer: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company
Engraver: the shop of Gustave Young
87.56.3.1

The American frontier moved gradually across the North American continent over several generations. In the 1850s, the frontier included areas such as the Kansas Territory and border towns in the state of Missouri. The issue of slavery, and whether or not it should be allowed in the Kansas Territory, was hotly debated. The debate often turned violent, and with so many people losing their lives, newspaper editor Horace Greeley dubbed the area "Bleeding Kansas." In 1857, at the height of the violence, Samuel Colt presented this Model 1851 Navy Revolver to Kansas Territorial Governor Robert. J. Walker, an influential politician. The revolver was commonly referred to as the "Bleeding Kansas Colt."



I guess Mr. Colt thought the govenor of Kansas was in need of some protection from the Radical republicans and abolitionist in Kansas.
Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Mr.Walker's face also appears on currency as did many slave owning politicians before him. Seams to be a trend....


L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

The American frontier moved gradually across the North American continent over several generations. In the 1850s, the frontier included areas such as the Kansas Territory and border towns in the state of Missouri. The issue of slavery, and whether or not it should be allowed in the Kansas Territory, was hotly debated. The debate often turned violent, and with so many people losing their lives, newspaper editor Horace Greeley dubbed the area "Bleeding Kansas." In 1857, at the height of the violence, Samuel Colt presented this Model 1851 Navy Revolver to Kansas Territorial Governor Robert. J. Walker, an influential politician. The revolver was commonly referred to as the "Bleeding Kansas Colt."

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I guess Mr. Colt thought the govenor of Kansas was in need of some protection from the Radical republicans and abolitionist in Kansas.
Baker [/QUOTE]

1856; serial number 59492
Owner: Kansas Territorial Governor Robert J. Walker
Inscribed: Gov. R.J. Walker / Col. Colt’s Compliments
Manufacturer: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company
Engraver: the shop of Gustave Young
87.56.3.1

The American frontier moved gradually across the North American continent over several generations. In the 1850s, the frontier included areas such as the Kansas Territory and border towns in the state of Missouri. The issue of slavery, and whether or not it should be allowed in the Kansas Territory, was hotly debated. The debate often turned violent, and with so many people losing their lives, newspaper editor Horace Greeley dubbed the area "Bleeding Kansas"

Moreover, Colt's innovative use of art, celebrity endorsements and corporate gifts to promote his wares made him a pioneer in the fields of advertising, product placement and mass marketing, although he was criticized during and after his life for promoting his arms through bribes, threats and monopoly. Samuel Colt died when he was just 47 years old as one of the richest men in America at 1/966th of the GNP $15,000,000.
But that is not what I believe is the hole truth, they leave out too much vital information and that affects peoples judgment and perception of what was reality.

The truth is that Samuel Colt wanted to be an inventor. He had traveled the country selling nitro-us oxide and exploding fireworks shows until he was discovered in Baltimore Maryland by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth. (K.G.C. hot spot)
Acting as Patent Commissioner, Ellsworth made a decision that profoundly affected the future of Hartford and Connecticut. The young Samuel Colt was struggling to establish a firm to manufacture his new revolver. Ellsworth became interested in Colt's invention enough to invest 300 dollars of his own money, and in 1836 made the decision to issue Colt U.S. Patent No. 138. On the basis of Ellsworth's decision, Colt was able to raise some $200,000 from investors to incorporate the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, New Jersey, the forerunner of the mighty Colt arms manufacturing empire
Four years earlier, in 1832, Ellsworth traveled west again, this time as U.S. Commissioner of Indian Tribes in Arkansas and Oklahoma. President Andrew Jackson appointed Ellsworth one of three commissioners to "study the country, to mark the boundaries, to pacify the warring Indians and, in general to establish order and justice" after Congress's passage of the 1830 Indian Removal Act. Ellsworth travelled to Fort Gibson to investigate the situation. (Some critics blame Ellsworth for being complicit in the subsequent removal of Native Americans to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma, particularly since Ellsworth's appointment and subsequent western trip followed the Indian Removal Act, Andrew Jackson's first significant act as President.
Remember Albert Pike? In 1831, Pike left Massachusetts to travel west, first stopping in St. Louis and later moving on to Independence, Missouri. In Independence, he joined an expedition to Taos, New Mexico, hunting and trading. During the excursion his horse broke and ran, forcing Pike to walk the remaining 500 miles to Taos. After this he joined a trapping expedition to the Llano Estacado in New Mexico and Texas. Trapping was minimal and, after traveling about 1300 miles (650 on foot), he finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas
Do you think these two men's separate journeys at the same time that ended in the same place was a coincidence? I believe they were being directed by higher powers in the Knights of the Golden Circle.
The two most important things in the Civil war were guns and communication. Mr. Henry Ellsworth became so interested, for instance, in a new-fangled invention by Samuel Morse called the telegraph that Ellsworth petitioned Congress for a $30,000 grant to test the possibilities of the technology.
Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

As far before Lincolns assassination as this may seem, it was the beginnings of the group that brought on and helped finance the Civil War. they made money off of the North and the South and some of their businesses still remain in operation to this very day!
L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Any soldier will back me up on this. The first thing that happens in the War game is a reconnaissance mission to gather information about the area and the locals (Indians) to see whose side they would be on when the excrement connected with the rotary oscillator.... .
With travel being on horseback and boats and on foot (A. Pike walked 500 miles) you would have to start the recon missions years before you expected to initiate an attack. There were more missions going on at this time, all you have to do is look at who initiated them and appropriated the funds from the U.S. government to finance them. The K.G.C. loved to screw the government and make them pay for it.
Baker
L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

As far before Lincolns assassination as this may seem, it was the beginnings of the group that brought on and helped finance the Civil War. they made money off of the North and the South and some of their businesses still remain in operation to this very day!
L.C. Baker

It was the new members of this old K.G.C. that formed the Order of American Knights. They were the members that put together the money to pay J.W.Booth and his associates to kill Lincoln. The knight that carried instructions and money to Booth was staying in the Kirkwood Hotel, right along with the rest of the gang, except he only comunicated with Booth. That is why his name was never mentioned by any of the convicted assassins. Or it is possible that they knew his name but chose to keep it to their self because they were sworn by the K.G.C. to do so. No true Rebel wanted to be known as the yellow belly that tattled, not to mention the penalties that the K.G.C. would have doled out to his entire family. They would have wiped his seed from the face of the earth.....his mother, father, brothers, sisters, and children...then....burned their homes and killed the livestock and the family dog. The Knights had very little tollerance for that kind of thing.
L.C. Baker

 

[ECS]

The David Rankin Barbbe Papers at Georgetown University contain documents,letters,and other records that cover John Yates Beale,the Lincoln assassination,Booth and the conspirators,and Booth's autopsy record.
http://repository.library.georegetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/558911/GAMMS145.html?sequence=1

 

[L.C. BAKER]

The David Rankin Barbbe Papers at Georgetown University contain documents,letters,and other records that cover John Yates Beale,the Lincoln assassination,Booth and the conspirators,and Booth's autopsy record.
http://repository.library.georegetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/558911/GAMMS145.html?sequence=1

I tried your link but would not work. Please post again.
Thanks,Baker
P.S. I believe it will just be the papers that were filed by E. Stanton and his cohorts, not necessarily the truth. I would like to see them to read what they say though.

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Do you have documented proof that they put up the money. I know for a fact that John Surrett and Booth went to Canada and was paid by Jacob Thompson from the $2 Million Dollars that the KGC captured from the Yankee Army on the Red River in Texas.

I have documented proof of the funds being raised and the Knight's name that was involved with the transference of said funds to New York City from points West in the Fall of 1864. The superintendent of the operations name and his involvement in the assassination are firm but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence to support the truth about what took place and his involvement in the assassination of Lincoln. John Surratt and Booth were also met in Canada as well as Richmond Virginia and New York City (at the residence of another Knight) by the superintendent of the assassination and they met again in Washington D.C. to receive further instructions and funding for the K.G.C. operation.
Jefferson Davis was not in charge of the kidnapping / assassination. The order came from much farther up the K.G.C. ladder than the President of the C.S.A. The K.G.C.'s elders in power, selected and placed Jeff Davis in the C.S.A. presidency. The assassination plot was stoked by a Knight with a very personal vengeful thirst for Abe Lincoln's blood to make up for what he had lost personally, and for the "Rebel Cause". He was a very pissed off individual on several levels and would use any means possible to rid the world of "King Abraham"
I also have indisputable proof of all of the men that I speak of that were involved of being members of the Knights of the Golden Circle. Including President Franklin Pierce and Lewis Cass, along with a number of no less prominent politicians, Republicans and Democrats. There is no hearsay in my proof. Some of the evidence against these men is in their own hand writing, both in letters to each other and on K.G.C. documents that have been decoded by my Father and myself. I will release all of it in the near future, stay tuned!
Thanks for your input,


L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. A still more broad definition includes everything that has existed, exists, or will exist.

What ever we perceive as reality becomes reality to us. Those who control your eyes and your ears, create a false reality that they want you to believe is real. This is not new news, people have been using the technique of falsifying evidence and testimony to persuade juries and judges forever. It is the same reason that the K.G.C. wanted to control the press in so many big cities. The Knights held all of the public offices, wrote, passed, and enforced the laws on the population. That is how you get the best chance to force the abolitionist to leave Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was the first strike of force between the two factions. There was in charge there, what would become the Order of American Knights already embedded within the fabric of the Kansas Borders and new state capitol. They were sent there from South Carolina and Virginia and other places, by the K.G.C. to make a stand and force out the abolitionist John Brown and Lane along with their Radical Republican followers.
The writers of the Lecompton Constitution (K.G.C.) were fighting for slavery in the territory against the abolitionist that were already in-bedded in Kansas. a preceding constitution had been written by the anti-slavery group (Radical Republicans)
The Topeka Constitutional Convention met from October 23 to Nov 11, 1855 in Topeka, Kansas Territory at Constitution Hall. It drafted the Topeka Constitution that would have banned slavery in Kansas. The convention was organized by Free-Staters to counter the pro slavery Territorial legislature elected March 5, 1855 in polling suffering widely from electoral fraud and the intimidation of free state settlers.

Deductive reasoning, also deductive logic or logical deduction or, informally, "top-down" logic, is the process of reasoning from one or more general statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion.
Deductive reasoning links premises with conclusions. If all premises are true, the terms are clear, and the rules of deductive logic are followed, then the conclusion reached is necessarily true. Think about it.
L.C. Baker

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. A still more broad definition includes everything that has existed, exists, or will exist.

What ever we perceive as reality becomes reality to us. Those who control your eyes and your ears, create a false reality that they want you to believe is real. This is not new news, people have been using the technique of falsifying evidence and testimony to persuade juries and judges forever. It is the same reason that the K.G.C. wanted to control the press in so many big cities. The Knights held all of the public offices, wrote, passed, and enforced the laws on the population. That is how you get the best chance to force the abolitionist to leave Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was the first strike of force between the two factions. There was in charge there, what would become the Order of American Knights already embedded within the fabric of the Kansas Borders and new state capitol. They were sent there from South Carolina and Virginia and other places, by the K.G.C. to make a stand and force out the abolitionist John Brown and Lane along with their Radical Republican followers.
The writers of the Lecompton Constitution (K.G.C.) were fighting for slavery in the territory against the abolitionist that were already in-bedded in Kansas. a preceding constitution had been written by the anti-slavery group (Radical Republicans)
The Topeka Constitutional Convention met from October 23 to Nov 11, 1855 in Topeka, Kansas Territory at Constitution Hall. It drafted the Topeka Constitution that would have banned slavery in Kansas. The convention was organized by Free-Staters to counter the pro slavery Territorial legislature elected March 5, 1855 in polling suffering widely from electoral fraud and the intimidation of free state settlers.

Deductive reasoning, also deductive logic or logical deduction or, informally, "top-down" logic, is the process of reasoning from one or more general statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion.
Deductive reasoning links premises with conclusions. If all premises are true, the terms are clear, and the rules of deductive logic are followed, then the conclusion reached is necessarily true. Think about it.
L.C. Baker

Philosophy 102...?

 

[L.C. BAKER]

again....just trying to make people think for their self and make up their own minds based on the facts that are presented, instead of the cover up story that was created by the guilty parties in question.
Thanks for your input, L.C. Baker

 

[Rebel - KGC]

again....just trying to make people think for their self and make up their own minds based on the facts that are presented, instead of the cover up story that was created by the guilty parties in question.
Thanks for your input, L.C. Baker

OK; HH!

 

[Citiboy289]

The American frontier moved gradually across the North American continent over several generations. In the 1850s, the frontier included areas such as the Kansas Territory and border towns in the state of Missouri. The issue of slavery, and whether or not it should be allowed in the Kansas Territory, was hotly debated. The debate often turned violent, and with so many people losing their lives, newspaper editor Horace Greeley dubbed the area "Bleeding Kansas." In 1857, at the height of the violence, Samuel Colt presented this Model 1851 Navy Revolver to Kansas Territorial Governor Robert. J. Walker, an influential politician. The revolver was commonly referred to as the "Bleeding Kansas Colt."

View attachment 845972

I guess Mr. Colt thought the govenor of Kansas was in need of some protection from the Radical republicans and abolitionist in Kansas.
Baker

1856; serial number 59492
Owner: Kansas Territorial Governor Robert J. Walker
Inscribed: Gov. R.J. Walker / Col. Colt’s Compliments
Manufacturer: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company
Engraver: the shop of Gustave Young
87.56.3.1

The American frontier moved gradually across the North American continent over several generations. In the 1850s, the frontier included areas such as the Kansas Territory and border towns in the state of Missouri. The issue of slavery, and whether or not it should be allowed in the Kansas Territory, was hotly debated. The debate often turned violent, and with so many people losing their lives, newspaper editor Horace Greeley dubbed the area "Bleeding Kansas"

Moreover, Colt's innovative use of art, celebrity endorsements and corporate gifts to promote his wares made him a pioneer in the fields of advertising, product placement and mass marketing, although he was criticized during and after his life for promoting his arms through bribes, threats and monopoly. Samuel Colt died when he was just 47 years old as one of the richest men in America at 1/966th of the GNP $15,000,000.
But that is not what I believe is the hole truth, they leave out too much vital information and that affects peoples judgment and perception of what was reality.

The truth is that Samuel Colt wanted to be an inventor. He had traveled the country selling nitro-us oxide and exploding fireworks shows until he was discovered in Baltimore Maryland by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth. (K.G.C. hot spot)
Acting as Patent Commissioner, Ellsworth made a decision that profoundly affected the future of Hartford and Connecticut. The young Samuel Colt was struggling to establish a firm to manufacture his new revolver. Ellsworth became interested in Colt's invention enough to invest 300 dollars of his own money, and in 1836 made the decision to issue Colt U.S. Patent No. 138. On the basis of Ellsworth's decision, Colt was able to raise some $200,000 from investors to incorporate the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, New Jersey, the forerunner of the mighty Colt arms manufacturing empire
Four years earlier, in 1832, Ellsworth traveled west again, this time as U.S. Commissioner of Indian Tribes in Arkansas and Oklahoma. President Andrew Jackson appointed Ellsworth one of three commissioners to "study the country, to mark the boundaries, to pacify the warring Indians and, in general to establish order and justice" after Congress's passage of the 1830 Indian Removal Act. Ellsworth travelled to Fort Gibson to investigate the situation. (Some critics blame Ellsworth for being complicit in the subsequent removal of Native Americans to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma, particularly since Ellsworth's appointment and subsequent western trip followed the Indian Removal Act, Andrew Jackson's first significant act as President.
Remember Albert Pike? In 1831, Pike left Massachusetts to travel west, first stopping in St. Louis and later moving on to Independence, Missouri. In Independence, he joined an expedition to Taos, New Mexico, hunting and trading. During the excursion his horse broke and ran, forcing Pike to walk the remaining 500 miles to Taos. After this he joined a trapping expedition to the Llano Estacado in New Mexico and Texas. Trapping was minimal and, after traveling about 1300 miles (650 on foot), he finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas
Do you think these two men's separate journeys at the same time that ended in the same place was a coincidence? I believe they were being directed by higher powers in the Knights of the Golden Circle.
The two most important things in the Civil war were guns and communication. Mr. Henry Ellsworth became so interested, for instance, in a new-fangled invention by Samuel Morse called the telegraph that Ellsworth petitioned Congress for a $30,000 grant to test the possibilities of the technology.
Baker

Might Be somewhat off topic here but this thread has some really great historical posts , Facts and asks some great questions - I just wanted to add some Colt information ------ You are correct he was Not an inventor, something he always aimed for, He was however a great business man, marketer and Promoter , He associated the product with quality which still carrys the same level of acceptance now.

Colt was Bankrupt in 1847, really on the " skids " no factory ect, A Texas Ranger ( actually Texas Mounted Rifles ) name Capt Samuel Walker, believing that colt was still a major manufacturer , contacted Colt to build a Better Percussion Revolver , that changed the style of the previous models Colt had produced, which were difficult for Mounted military to use. Colt convinced Walker to come east and have a meeting, Walker came and with the concept and Colt agreed to manufacture the weapon , The order was for 1100 pieces. Colt without any manufacturing ability went to Eli Whitney , who took the concept from discussion to Production. Colt had each piece marked with the military units company and the inventory number ( company A 111 ) The weapon is very rare some even have the marking " WHITNEYVILLE COLT " Colt was the largest hard good supplier to the civil war. Interesting fact the 1851 Colt Navy through original production and replicas is the weapon with the longest production history ever

 

[L.C. BAKER]

Thanks for the colt info Citiboy, It is interesting that Texas Ranger Walker, was the man Texas rededicated Walker County to after Governor R.J. Walker backed out on supporting the Lecompton Constitution in Kansas.
L.C. Baker

 

[L.C. BAKER]

From The diary of John Surratt

This is from the diary of John Surratt, It is a very descriptive detail of who was in the room with him discussing Lincoln's demise. I can not imagine in any way that John Wilkes Booth was the man directing the group of Knights on what the plan was. He was in the room with his mouth shut and his ears open like the rest of the crew as they all received direction from those higher up in society.

"Solemn, very solemn, indeed, was the occasion —
horribly binding that obligation—fearfully terrible the
penalty ; but it is over now, and I know the secret
—
at least, am acquainted with some of the awful mysteries
which overshadow the whole.
What a crowd ! what a congregation ! The outside
world would never believe that, in that dark room,
there were to have been found men of all grades of
^society. But it is true ; and the mighty machine, when
it. begins to move, will permeate through all the stratus
of official life. Cabinet members, high in office, were
there ; and so, also, the unsuccessful actors, who seek
elsewhere the fame they failed to secure on the mimic
stage—eminent Judges, who now, by their decisions,
influence the destinies of the nation ; and editors, who
wield a mightier weapon than the sword, and hold a
lever that moves the world—Congressmen, who pretend
to make our laws ; and roughs, who never fail to break
them. All these were there, for I saw them. It was
a strange union of opposing elements; but they all
have their part to play in the drama of the " Coming
Future," and I, among the number." John Surratt

L.C. Baker