Attorney, statesman, member of the Alabama legislature and ardent Confederate patriot whose oratory resounded throughout Saltmarsh Hall in old Cahawba. Advertised in an Alabama newspaper during the Civil War soliciting the murder of Pres. Lincoln and was arrested after the assassination on suspicion of conspiracy in that deed. Released for lack of evidence after several months at Fortress Monroe, and returned to Alabama proud and unrepentant.
Attorney, statesman, member of the Alabama legislature and ardent Confederate patriot whose oratory resounded throughout Saltmarsh Hall in old Cahawba. Advertised in an Alabama newspaper during the Civil War soliciting the murder of Pres. Lincoln and was arrested after the assassination on suspicion of conspiracy in that deed. Released for lack of evidence after several months at Fortress Monroe, and returned to Alabama proud and unrepentant.
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