One of our subbers, Sam Terry, sent me this today, a story I had forgotten about over the years. I thought you might enjoy this as I posted his cemetery deed Monday. Thanks Sam for permission to send to the list! Sandi Sam says: James Chenault has an interesting story which I include on my Cemetery Walking Tours. As a young man, Chenault was an avid supporter of the Confederacy during the Civil War. He was one of a small group of renegades who devised and set into action a plan to disrupt the entire East Coast and, in their opinion, cause such devastation that the Confederacy would prevail. Their plan: burn down New York City! The group plotted and planned a scheme in which the participants would be strategically placed throughout the city and at the appointed time, would set fires, the plan being that they would set so many fires it would overwhelm any firefighting efforts and ultimately burn the entire city. Their feeling was that by destroying New York City, the entire country would be thrown into such a state of confusion that the war would be disrupted. (Does anyone see the similarity to 9-11-2001?) There were several fires set, but some of those appointed to set fires apparently did not follow through, many other fires were detected and quickly extinguished. Ultimately the plot failed. There is a book about this operation, The Man Who Tried to Burn New York, and Chenault is documented as one of the men involved in the scheme, though very little information about him is included. The book gives a summary of the lives of the men after the war, and in Chenault's case, it simply states that no further information is known. However, there is more information about James Chenault: he returned to Barren County, Kentucky, where he became a respected Baptist preacher.