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In today's supplement to the Halifax Chronicle-Herald [in Nova Scotia, Canada], the following story appears in an expanded form.
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At the Queen’s Hotel in Toronto, in December 1863, Dr. Luke P. Blackburn — a well respected Kentucky physician and known Confederate agent — recruited a southern sympathizer, Godfrey Hyams, to help carry out his plan to kill as many Northerners as possible.
Hyams is described as a resident of England with a family on welfare who was a Southern sympathizer then residing in Toronto. He was down on his luck and expected to realize up to $60,000 from Blackburn if he took part in a plot to successfully transport blankets infected with yellow fever through the port of Boston and on to various locations, including to Abraham Lincoln in the White House.
In the end, the plot to spread the infectious blankets did not succeed, and Hyams was never paid.
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I know nothing about these people, but thought this story might be of interest to anyone who has Dr. Luke Blackburn of Kentucky or Godfrey Hyams of England, both living in the 1860's, in their family tree.
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