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Almost entirely unrelated, but the life story on Thomas Hines is fascinating, so I'll mention it anyway.

Hines led a raid into Indiana before Morgan's more famous incursion during the Civil War; I was in the area when I found out about Hines' exploits, and reading more about him (all hail Wikipedia) was quite the rabbit hole.

His career path: grammar teacher -> field officer for the CSA -> guerrilla warfare coordinator for the CSA operating out of Toronto -> newspaper editor -> Tennessee lawyer -> chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Shortly after Lincoln's assassination he was mistaken for John Wilkes Booth and fled Detroit for Canada (hijacking a ferry to do so), which inspired the rumor that Booth had fled to Canada.



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