This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: LuAnneFespermanMullis Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.rowan/12334.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Probably would have. I imagine as long as he had not commited any crimes, they would about have had to. You are talking about 30 years after the war. So the southerners had started to regain control of their governments. Look at all the southern cities (including Salisbury) that put up monuments to their Confederate dead about that time period also. Maybe I will check www.genealogybank.com and see if there are any biographical articles that were published about him at the time of his elections. But it would not shock me to find out that everyone knew of his families history in the Civil War. Now if she really was a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination, that may not have gone over well, because Lincoln would not have "punished" the south the way his sucessors did. Had Lincoln lived the south would have recovered much quicker than it did. Sorry, these people were not in my lines, but I just found the subject matter interesting. 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.