Teddy Roosevelt's Confederate Spy Uncle May Have Aided & Abetted Lincoln's Assassination

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Possible connection to Lincoln assassination plot
From his base in Great Britain, James D. Bulloch was the financier of covert Confederate naval operations within the British Empire. This aspect of his intelligence operations has eluded the many analysts and historians who have studied the Canadian elements of the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln.

In late 1864, the Confederate States Secretary of the Navy, Stephen Mallory, ordered Bulloch to write a check drawn on "secret funds" to Patrick Martin, a Confederate blockade runner operating from Canada. These funds were intended to support the plot to kidnap Abraham Lincoln. Martin's project later evolved into the successful assassination plot. Captain Martin and his ship were lost in a storm in December 1864, as he was en route to Maryland with supplies for John Wilkes Booth.

When John Surratt, the last surviving member of the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, arrived in Liverpool in 1865, there is no evidence he contacted Bulloch. The latter was keeping a very low profile.

In case you forgot who Surratt and his hanged mother were [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

In his Papal soldier uniform: [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]
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Theodore Roosevelt on the Bullochs

In 1905, the height of reconciliation between the North and the South,[9] incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt toured the South. After spending October 19 in North Carolina, and skipping South Carolina, Roosevelt visited Roswell, Georgia the next day. He spoke to the citizens as his "neighbors and friends" and concluded his remarks as follows:

It has been my very great good fortune to have the right to claim my blood is half southern and half northern, and I would deny the right of any man here to feel a greater pride in the deeds of every southerner than I feel. Of all the children, the brothers and sisters of my mother who were born and brought up in that house on the hill there, my two uncles afterward entered the Confederate service and served with the Confederate Navy.

One, the younger man, served on the Alabama as the youngest officer aboard her. He was captain of one of her broadside 32-pounders in her final fight, and when at the very end the Alabama was sinking and the Kearsarge passed under her stern and came up along the side that had not been engaged hitherto, my uncle, Irvine Bulloch, shifted his gun from one side to the other and fired the two last shots fired from the Alabama. James Dunwoody Bulloch was a commander in the Confederate service.....

Men and women, don't you think I have the ancestral right to claim a proud kinship with those who showed their devotion to duty as they saw the duty, whether they wore the grey or whether they wore the blue? All Americans who are worthy the name feel an equal pride in the valor of those who fought on one side or the other, provided only that each did with all his strength and soul and mind his duty as it was given to him to see his duty.

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What better way to reward the descendant of a loyal papist agent by making him and his cousin POTUS?

FWIW, he's also descended from Archibald Bulloch, first Governor of Georgia and intended signee of the Declaration of Independence...remember, the Jesuits helped finance Washington's armies (John Carroll, founder of Georgtown U) and there were known Jesuit ties to the Lincoln assassination conspirators, Wilkes Booth and Surratt.

Question: were the first governors of the 13 colonies papists and Jesuits, hence their anti-British stances disguised as patriotism? Were the American Revolution and Civil War really Protestants versus Papists in disguise

Kinda makes you really wonder about Teddy's politics and stances in hindsight, as he was rather fond of his Confederate uncles, the aforementioned one directly financed by Judah Benjamin