This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: diamondgp Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12334.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It must have been in the summer of 1863 when Rowan and Sarah took up residence on a Slater farm outside of Salisbury. Records show that Slater enlisted in Co. A 20th NC Infantry on July 23, 1864 in Salisbury. There are also documents that indicate Sarah was with him in Salisbury. He was sent to Virginia where he was captured April 6, 1865 which two days earlier Sarah had been sent on a mission by the Confederacy Secretary of War to go to Montreal to remove a cetain amount of gold from there and take to England. Sarah spoke fluent french as both her parents were from France and her father had been a french teacher. It mus have bee about this time ths Sarah became involved in spy business. Sarah was used as a courier back and forth to Washington, New York and Montreal. She was often seem in the home of Mary Surratt and was seen travelling in the company of John Surratt and John Wilks Booh. At the time of Lincoln's assassination Sarah and John Suratt were in New York and both! went to Canada. It is known that Surratt went from there to England. The war ended. John Surratt's mother was hung as being a part of the assassination plot. Both John and Sarah were wanted for questioning. Sarah disappeared and could never be found. PS the gold she went after also was gone. The authrorities believed she was the connection to the Confederate government being a part of the conspiricy. She could never be found to testify. The Pinkerton detectives search could not fine her. She was known to them as Mrs. Slater or sometimes refered to as the French Woman or the lady in the veil. She has been considered by some historians as the most mysterious, elusive and sucessful of the female Civil War spies. As for her husband I do not know what happend to him or if he ever saw or heard from his wife again. I do not know where he is buried Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.